AUKUS submarine deal will damage Australia’s interests
By Richard Cullen

https://johnmenadue.com/aukus-submarine-deal-will-damage-australias-interests/

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Then there is the question as to whether these will actually be Australian submarines — or American-controlled and partly manned submarines allowed to fly an Australian flag — all paid for by Canberra. In May, The Guardian ran a lead story claiming that the “US won’t guarantee that Australia will have complete control of AUKUS submarines”, in which they quoted US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell as saying that “when submarines are provided from the United States to Australia, it’s not like they’re lost — they will just be deployed by the closest possible allied force”.

In March 2023, the former ALP Prime Minister Paul Keating said that the AUKUS plan was “the worst international decision” by an ALP government in over 100 years. He noted that “China has never threatened to attack us”, yet the ALP had now “screwed into place the last shackle in the long chain which the Americans have laid out to contain China”. China’s “great sin”, Keating added, was to build an economy equal to the size of that in the US, suggesting that “Americans would have preferred” that 20 percent of the world’s population remain in poverty.

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