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Nuclear submarines and AUKUS alliance a necessary defence as China flexes geopolitical power

By Editorial
September 17 2021 - 8:00am
A US Navy nuclear submarine. Picture: US Navy video
A US Navy nuclear submarine. Picture: US Navy video

IT is impossible to overstate the importance of the new trilateral "security partnership" between the US, the UK and Australia, and the replacement of Australia's $90 billion French submarine contract with a fleet of US nuclear-powered submarines, also to be built in Adelaide.

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