Trump’s belief in Australia using AUKUS subs could break the deal
Can the pressure on Taiwan syllab the end of Aukus? American observers began to wonder that the Trump government foresees the completion of a investigation into the submarine agreement.
Elbridge Colby, the Secretary of the Defense Policy, who leads the review published It will end in autumn in X last week, that is, in the last four months of the year (meteorologically speaking, between the months of autumn and November in the United States, astronomicallyBetween the end of September and the end of December).
Speculation about what the review will say and what it means for the role of Australia in Aukus Pact, Financial times Last month, Pentagon said, “If the United States and China enters the war on Taiwan, it is suppressing which role it is to clarify Japan and Australia to clarify.
According to the newspaper, Colby is pushing the problem in meetings with Japanese and Australian defense officials in recent months ”.
One of the five anonymous people, who said that Outlet explained the details of the debates, said: “This request surprised Tokyo and Canberra because the US itself does not guarantee Taiwan an empty check.”
Minister of Defense Industry Pat Conroy then he said The decision to commit to a conflict of the Australian troops will be made by the government of the day.
“We do not enter assumptions. We do not discuss assumptions,” he said. From inside.
Overnight, the US exit APPLICATIONS Some stakeholders now see AUKUS as “wandering in wavy waters,” he said, how the Trump administration’s perception of how Australia will commit to using Subs can do or break the project.
Bryan Clark, a senior member of the Hudson Institute of Conservative Thinking Corporation, said, “They were very kind of how to use submarines, ‘eh, deterrent, can be employed to defend Australia. they don’t. “
An anonymous US Defense Industry Manager, the exit “[inferred] that the administration is pro -.
“Everyone knows that the sub -industry base is stressful,” he added.
The new US Naval Operations Chief Daryl Caudle said last week to a Senate Committee, the country is not “Magic Bean” to raise the nuclear -energy submarine stocks with Australia to share with Australia.
“This will require a transformational development, not a 10% development, not a 20% development, 100% improvement,” he said. Guardian.
Foreign and Trade Secretary Peter Varghese, Australia Financial Review Last month, the United States can move more than Canberra accepted by Aukus to Avustralia.
“If it is a very distant bridge for the Australian government to get away from Aukus, the US can save us from ourselves by adding conditions that no Australian government cannot accept,” he wrote.
