A new Congressional report on AUKUS warns that an Australian accident could result in US warships being banned from foreign ports and questions whether Canberra would commit nuclear-powered submarines to a war over Taiwan.
An accident by the Australian navy operating US-made nuclear-powered submarines could result in American warships being banned from foreign ports, a new report warns US legislators, providing fresh ammunition for congressional sceptics to scuttle the AUKUS deal.
Released late last month, the report follows concerns Republican senators raised in a July letter to President Joe Biden, which requested more money for the US submarine industrial base to boost production to fulfil the AUKUS agreement.While these reports are presented to Congress to assist in deliberations, they represent the most deeply researched and even-handed analysis of policy options on the public record in the US system. This is the most scathing yet of the likely pitfalls.
The report stresses Congress still lacks basic details: the dates that the sold boats would leave the US navy, how much service life they would have, the sale price per boat, and Australia’s contribution to the US industrial submarine base.These kinds of complications are well known, but the report could fuel concerns the White House is not giving Congress adequate information to make a considered decision.
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