Congressional wrangling over the Pentagon’s budget sends a worrying message over AUKUS and highlights an ugly industrial reality.
Already a subscriber?In a pre-AUKUS world, construction of the first French-designed submarine for Australia would have started in Adelaide this year.
But it certainly sends a worrying message, and is admission of an ugly reality that needs to be overcome to deliver the project, at a time of spiralling strategic uncertainty. Australians are constantly assured by Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles of bipartisan backing for AUKUS in the US. What happens, though, if a future Congress decides to call the presidential bluff?
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