The AUKUS pact is a model for Western allies
Pooling talent and resources is the only way to match China’s heft
Australian and British sailors have been visiting American submarines for decades. It would be hard to imagine closer allies than their three countries. But as those sailors approached the engine room they would come to a watertight door that even they could not pass. For beyond it lay one of America’s most sacrosanct technologies, shared only with Britain in 1958: nuclear propulsion. The aukus pact throws that door open, pointing the way to a new phase in the West’s competition with China.
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