Turnbull’s AUKUS Submarine Concerns Sunk by US Congressman Joe Courtney

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is wrong in his prediction that Australia will get no AUKUS submarines of its own, according to U.S. Congressman. Joe Courtney (D-CT). Courtney said Australia signed up to AUKUS because it understood the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) development of missile technology made ships more vulnerable, particularly diesel electric subs, to attack, he told the “Why should we care about the Indo-Pacific?” podcast. “[Australia] realised that [to gain adequate] reach and stealth of their submarines, given what’s happening in the security environment, they’re going to have to spend a lot of money, almost regardless of what choice they made, so it made sense to go [down] the pathway they chose,” Courtney said....