President Trump’s failure to recognise the AUKUS acronym has raised serious questions about the future of the Australia-UK-US defense pact. With Trump’s nominated undersecretary of defence questioning whether supplying Australia with nuclear submarines serves US interests, the alliance appears increasingly fragile. Meanwhile, China conducts naval exercises in the Tasman Sea, directly challenging the security partnership. The Congressional Research Service reports the US Navy currently has only 49 of its target 66 attack submarines, building them at half the rate needed to meet both US requirements and AUKUS commitments.
Today’s Newsmaker is AUKUS.
Guests:
David Andrews
Senior Policy Advisor at the Australian National University’s National Security College
Greg Swenson
Chairperson of Republicans Overseas UK
Andrew Leung
Independent China Strategist
00:00 AUKUS alliance at risk?
01:26 Look to Aukus
05:20 The debate
05:46 Trump’s AUKUS stance
08:38 Who needs this alliance most?
10:00 China’s position
12:53 How does Australia see China’s naval threat?
14:51 Taiwan vs Australia: US submarine priorities
18:18 Could US speed up building submarines?
20:09 Preparing for potential conflict
#AUKUS #Trump #theNewsmakers
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One thing is I observed New Zealand's and Australia's radar can't detect an enemy warships they seem outdated, thanks to the virgin.
Stop aukus !
Aussy made only.
Just get the UK to build them, they’re already well underway with their Astute Class subs and they’re brilliant, up there with the best attack subs if not the best. I mean SSN AUKUS is based on the astute anyway. The US is just selling them some Virginia class subs as a stop gap just back out of that and go fully in the Astute class.
Australia is a China puppet
Stop shitstiring . One election cycle is not the end of aukus . Level your lopsided headspace . T
As an American Veteran – I apologize. The official moves by the current administration are unforgivable. You must carry on.
How about we as a country cut mosf if not all ties with America and allie ourselves with the more sane countries instead of Donald ducks facist oligarchy his running.
Your opinions on Russia mean nothing. History will be written by the victors, and it won’t be you!
Why cant Australia just amend the deal!!???Build 6 new non nuclear modern lithium subs from Sweden or Japan while waiting for the 8 Australian British nuclear Aukus subs???Why the hell is Australia paying for American shipyards if America plan to give Australia second hand Virginia class subs??.. Australia is massively over paying for the Subs.
LOL! Are you not watching world news? Of course he will abandon them – he's the betrayer in chief.
Everybody is telling you guys for years to show some self esteem and stop trying to please the yanks all the time.
You destroyed your relationship with China against your own best interests only to make the american pay some attention to you.
Buy from UK, they would never let Aus down
Australia should cancel the order, cut our loss, put up the rent on Pine Gap, and any other American bases in Australia by 50%. Australia 🇦🇺 can not trust anything Trump says.
We don't need US protection so long as we're not doing the US's bidding! Can't trust them to stick to the agreement. We don't need the subs to protect our trade with China against China, surely? As many others are saying, go back to the French and buy the nuclear version. The Chinese are arrogant buggers who need to be stood up to but on our terms,not the US's.
The ALLIANCE IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE- STOP GASLIGHTING THE PEOPLE. We are big supporters of Australia and I have been following politics closely for 70 years and this is the first time I have heard of AUKUS. Besides, investing in billion dollar subs is not the way to go and you can get so much more resources out of the new "Ghost Shark" unmanned sub that Australia built with Palmer Lucky's defense company called Anduril.
🇦🇺 we'll take a refund then thanks for nothing ….
USA can just build the submarines and keep them for themselves, Australia could pay for it and USA can give assurance of protecting Australia in case of an invasion. 🥴
If Trump ever gets reminded AUKUS even exists, he'll say Biden let AU rip-off the US and demand AU pay another $50 billion in rare minerals in order to keep the deal.
True colours shinning through. Can never trust the Trump or the US to come to any ones aid if attacked.
America can never be trusted again not now or in the future,. The growing anti US sentiment is growing around the world
Donald Trump would have completed his presidency long before the Subs are due to be built for Australia anyway and who knows what a future President may choose to do ,a potential war with China may have happened long before we even get them i can see the point in having the subs closer to China /Taiwan another option may be to buy the retired nuclear subs off the US would surely be a better option than the outdated diesel subs if they still in operational condition.Australia also has 27% of the worlds uranium plus at least 4% of the worlds rare earths critical to the US defense so a deal between the USA and Australia should be able to be done.
It was an awful deal for Australia. We need to order our gear from Europe and get our money back then remove US forces from our country. We will never see those subs
Trump is a joke
This is just propaganda! Where are the real facts?
Its time we joined back up with Canada and Commonwealth… Yanks are power tripping hard out 💯😮
A few years ago I would never have thought our relationship could be so easily trashed by the US. Over 100 years of fighting alongside each other and the fact that we've always jumped into wars when asked apparently means stuff all now. We need to develop a home-grown missile program, air and underwater UAVs, and decouple from the US. Sure, let's have alliances, but not reliances.
Abolish AUKUS! A$368 Billion for 8 nuclear submarines (without nuclear weapons) is nothing but robbery of the Australian people !!!
The United States has a diverse population with many cultural influences
Screw AUKUS and make CANZUK a reality!
As Malcolm Turnbull, our former Australian Prime Minister said why would we pay $500mUSD to help improve the US capacity to improve their submarine building capacity? and yet have no guarantee we are buying nuclear submarines under our sovereign control. We need to ditch the deal and buy French nuclear submarines and lock it in – not allow a future Government to flip flop – we are hardly an ally if the US has a trading surplus with us and Trump screws us with tariffs. I say piss off and take your military off our shores. The US relies heavily on our Joint Spy facility in Pine Gap and submarine comms from Exmouth – the US is NOT a trusted ally – so we should can joint military exercises with the US. We should drop the US out of the Five Eyes Intelligence sharing – Trumps proximity to doing deals with Russia could compromise any intelligence shared with them. The US no longer serves our long term interests – it isnt just about the US.
4:42: the US has been Australia’s most important security partner, Australia is also a member of the five eyes, yet the USA failed to tell Australia about these ships and their drills…
The United States has a diverse population with many cultural influences
Australia, UK get out of AUKUS, you will never get those submarines. Not with Trump – and bet you won't get your money back either!That is already in his pocket!
America can no longer be trusted. Australia, like Canada, is better off without them.
But… China doesn't offer a very good lifeline to these economies? It's drowning in debt. Evergrande's collapse has had major flow on effects into other industries such as steel and furnaces. Tier 2 cities are struggling with even remaining solvent, with the Reserve bank not even buying government bonds. Multiple foreign company's have pulled out of the Chinese manufacturing market, such as LG Electronics and numerous automobile manufacturing company's have collapsed till basically BYD is the last one standing, and all of this is problematic to China as the majority of their internal revenue is built from company level taxes. China is basically going to need to go to war in like 2 or 3 years at this rate so they can go into a war economy and thus distract their population.
Aukus was never meant to be a defence block. It is an attack block. Colonial countries are Colonizers so attack. Spurious propaganda blinkers colonial countries citizens to believe their leaders. Colonial countries fully support Zionism. They do not care about anyone but themselves and their abilities to dominate and destroy.
I am absolutely stunned right now!
Tasman sea is too close to my home for comfort
This is blowing my mind!
Anything Turnbull says i would believe the opposite. The man is a babbling fool and a traitor.
Time for Canada to slip in and buy the French nuclear subs and get away from the US's "approvals".
That's fine , give us our money back then .