Richard Fontaine, the CEO of the Centre for a New American Security, dismisses worries about Donald Trump's potential abandonment of the AUKUS pact and retaliation against Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd if re-elected. Fontaine also criticizes the naive reaction to the suggestion of Australian nuclear-powered submarines' role in a US-China conflict over Taiwan.
One of America’s leading foreign policy thinkers has played down fears that Donald Trump could discard the AUKUS pact or seek revenge against Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd if the former president is re-elected in November.
“He said the submarines could be relevant in a variety of contingencies, including cross-strait contingencies. If that’s a surprise to anyone, it shouldn’t be.” Richard Fontaine from the Centre for a New American Security said Australians should be more worried about Trump’s protectionist trade policies than the Republican frontrunner tearing up AUKUS.“I think it’s such a win-win and I think would be perceived that way if a Trump administration was to come back into office.
“I don’t think that has really anything to do with how Kevin Rudd might or might not serve his country as ambassador to the United States,” he said. “I think those practical circumstances in which AUKUS has the potential to have submarines from a number of countries operating in close coordination that could deliver conventional ordinance from long distances – those have enormous implications in a variety of scenarios, including in cross-strait circumstances.”
Fontaine said it would be a “good development” for AUKUS if Japan was able to join the so-called “pillar II” of the pact, which relates to collaboration on advanced military technologies such as hypersonic weapons, quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
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