Aukus deal’s importance ‘well understood’ by Trump administration, Penny Wong says – but no iron-clad guarantee given | Australian foreign policy

Penny Wong says that the strategic importance of the AUKUS agreement is “well understood by the Trump administration, despite a doubtful Pentagon review of the future of Pact.

To meet with four Nations Foreign Ministers on Washington DC on Washington DC, the Australian Foreign Minister said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had no iron -covered assurance from the Australia’s contract, but he felt the position of the agreement on the need to continue.

The AUKUS agreement summarizes the sharing of nuclear submarine technology between Australia, the United States and the UK at a cost of approximately $ 350 billion. The federal government has already paid $ 800 million.

Although the investigation was ruled by Aukus Skeptic and US Defense Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, Wong said that the partnership would be “last decade ..

Australia and the United States understand the importance of both our countries and England.

“We understand that a new administration will enter a review, Wong said Wong. “This is not surprising. England did this.

“This is a perennial partnership. He will take the governments and the administrations of both political persuasions for years. We will continue to work with the United States and England to deliver it.”

Negotiations Donald Trump and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed Australia’s defense expenditures to 3.5% of GDP. The federal government is resisting this pressure.

Australia is on the road to raise defense expenditures from approximately $ 53 billion per year or from approximately 2% of GDP to-2033-34 to $ 100 billion or to 2.4% of GDP.

Four interviews include Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

Wong said Rubio regretted that Rubio had not met Anthony Albanian at Trump’s G7 summit last month. Trump left negotiations in Canada one day to deal with the war between Israel and Iran.

“Considering the circumstances, I explained that we perfectly understood why the president should be separated and accepted that we would plan this meeting again,” he said. “We both look forward to the leading meeting.

“I think the Trump administration and President Trump clearly stated that he foresees a different role in the world.”

A possible opportunity for a meeting between Trump and the Prime Minister in the White House may be after the UN General Assembly in New York in September. This year, India will host the summit of the next four leaders.

It can benefit from the demand for critical minerals from four countries, including Australia, Japan and India, and exports are part of China’s efforts to secure supply chains as a balance against the dominance of the market.

Rubio said the United States wants to diversify global materials and processing. “It is very important for all technologies and all industries on the board of directors,” he said.

“To have a various and reliable global supply chain of them is only one example of many people that we can focus and build on them and make real progress.”

Wong called progress in critical minerals and is part of efforts to achieve “concrete results için for a stable and peaceful Indo-Pacific region.

“This is a supply chain set to supply. Australia, I think there are 36 out of 50 critical minerals. Certainly we have the capacity to do more to secure these supply chains.”