any one country orcas is not intended to be adversarial towards any uh other power but it's definitely focused on countering china the first step under august is nuclear the us will transfer secret nuclear propulsion technology to help australia develop eight of their own nuclear-powered submarines this got australia so excited that it scrapped the NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollar deal it made with france in NUMBER_TOKEN. the french felt stabbed in the back they got so angry that they cancelled a gala celebrating u.s french relations in washington d.c and recalled their ambassadors i just hope they don't take back the statue of liberty but the french had it coming australia was already looking for a way out of their french submarine deal because the french subs they had ordered were fraught with long delays and huge cost overruns the cost of the submarines had gone from almost NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars to more than NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars and there was also the time more than NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN pages of secret documents about those submarines got leaked they should have been using surf shark i keep telling people anyway it was clear that the french sub deal wasn't working out and the agreement with the u.s to help australia build its own nuclear submarines was a welcome way out now to clarify australia is not getting nuclear armed submarines there's a difference between being nuclear powered and being nuclear armed nuclear powered means that the submarines will have nuclear reactors this will help them move faster and stay underwater longer than diesel submarines nuclear armed means the submarines can launch nuclear missiles and these won't be that all three leaders stress that australia is not seeking to acquire nuclear weapons australia would simply have conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines this is still a big deal only six nations operate nuclear-powered submarines china france india russia the uk and the u.s and australia would become the seventh but unlike all the others australia doesn't have domestic nuclear infrastructure which is why they're getting the nuclear tech and know-how from the u.s so it'll take time to actually get nuclear-powered subs deployed morrison said he expected the first of the nuclear subs would be built by NUMBER_TOKEN. until then australia would host u.s nuclear subs in western australia if the us is willing to share this technology now it means that tensions with china are getting serious nuclear propulsion technology is a closely guarded secret for the u.s the only time washington had shared nuclear propulsion technology was back in NUMBER_TOKEN with the uk the united states made a choice that the need for a firm alliance to counter beijing is so urgent that it would set aside long-standing reservations about sharing sensitive nuclear technology of course this also means the u.s is expecting australia to step up if there ever was a war with china and maybe those nuclear-powered submarines could help according to the pentagon's NUMBER_TOKEN china military power report china continues to lack a robust deep water anti-submarine warfare capability despite making investments to improve on it nuclear powered subs would give australia the ability to reach as far north as taiwan and patrol the south china sea and even the indian ocean and there's more to this trilateral push against china i'll explain after the break welcome back a day after the leaders of the u.s uk and australia virtually announced akkas top u.s and australian officials called out china in a press conference in washington d.c
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