US EditionU.S. to Review AUKUS as Part of Trump’s ‘America First’ Agenda
- The U.S. Defense Department has launched a review of the 2021 AUKUS pact involving Australia, the UK, and the U.S., focusing on submarine production and strategic alignment.
- The review follows concerns over U.S. industrial capacity to build up to five Virginia-class submarines for Australia amid broader political scrutiny and allied reassessments.
- Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles expressed confidence in the pact’s continuation, highlighting its potential to boost defense industries and generate thousands of jobs.
- Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy undersecretary leading the review, said, "In principle it’s a great idea," while emphasizing readiness, allied contributions, and industrial base support.
- The review suggests ongoing challenges in production rates and costs but implies AUKUS could remain a key multidecade effort to counterbalance China's military rise and strengthen allied security.
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The Pentagon has announced it will review the massive AUKUS agreement between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia to ensure its aligned with US President Donald Trumps "America first" agenda.
The Pentagon wants to make sure that this contract, concluded under the presidency of Joe Biden, to the detriment of France, to which it had originally been promised, is "compatible with the agenda "America first" of the President.
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DailyTruthReportTrump is burning every US alliance
If the United States will not keep its word even to its closest allies, what is its friendship worth? In reviewing the AUKUS deal — a $240 billion multidecade agreement with the United Kingdom and Australia to share nuclear submarine technology — the Trump administration is vindicating every anti-American agitator who claims that Uncle Sam is a trickster. AUKUS was conceived as a way of checking Chinese revanchism in the Pacific. Australia, whic…
US reviews AUKUS to fit ‘America First’ agenda, a tactic to squeeze profits from allies: expert
When asked to comment on the US’ review of the AUKUS submarine pact with the UK and Australia, and the possibility that it could be abolished, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian said that China has repeatedly stated its stance on the US, UK and Australia’s formation of the so-called “trilateral security partnership.” We have always opposed creating bloc confrontations, increasing the risk of nuclear proliferation, and exacerbating th…
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