A top Canberra defence expert has lashed Australia’s multi-billion dollar AUKUS submarine project as amounting to a promise to follow the US into a war against China.
The Australian National University’s Hugh White, an emeritus professor of strategic studies, unleashed a quite extraordinary criticism of Australia’s nuclear submarine plan in a podcast episode aired on Sunday.
Australia has committed to pursue the acquisition of the nuclear-powered vessels under the trilateral AUKUS security pact involving the US and UK, with the “optimal pathway” announced by Anthony Albanese last week.
The endeavour confirmed by the Prime Minister...
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