When Joe Courtney, a Democratic congressman, learnt the Pentagon was reviewing the Australia-UK-US deal designed to enable Canberra to procure nuclear-powered submarines, he was stunned.
“This was an absolute thunderbolt,” Courtney, who has championed Aukus, told the Financial Times.
The pact, which is designed to boost capabilities in the Pacific to counter China, would enable Australia and the UK to co-produce an attack submarine known as SSN-Aukus with top secret US nuclear-propulsion technology.
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