San Diego may not be the most obvious location for an American president to meet two of his most stalwart allies — and his Australian counterpart . But there is a very particular reason behind its choice.For the Californian city on the Pacific seaboard plays host to a naval base called Point Loma, the home-port of the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Squadron 11, which is composed of four Los Angeles-class hunter-killer submarines. There is even talk of a photo opportunity involving the three men boarding one of the subs and walking the deck.The symbolism of the meeting will not be lost on the Chinese because the submarine deal the leaders are expected to finalise is designed to beef up the West’s military presence in the eastern Pacific at a time when ’s sabre-rattling over Taiwan is getting louder by the day.
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