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    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      UK defence industry
      BAE Systems wins £3.95bn contract for Aukus nuclear submarines

      Boats being built as part of security pact with US and Australia set to bring jobs and investment to Cumbria

    • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
      US and Australia insist political tussle will not damage submarine deal

      Washington will increase troop deployments and maritime patrols to counter Chinese threat in Indo-Pacific

      An Australian soldier keeps watch as part of the Talisman Sabre 23 military exercises last week in Australia
    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      Australian politics
      Australia overhauls defence strategy to respond to China’s build-up

      Government to strengthen northern bases and long-range strike capabilities for ‘missile age’ threats

      An AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter conducts flight operations with Royal Australian Navy HMAS Canberra landing helicopter dock last year
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
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      The Fed’s SVB balancing act

      Buyout titans weigh purchases from Silicon Valley Bank loan book

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Aukus defence pact’s political pay-off will be a jobs bonanza

      Deal set to create decades of work across US, UK and Australia

      Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak
    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Aukus allies unveil plan to supply Australia with nuclear-powered subs

      Security pact will allow three underwater fleets to co-operate in patrolling both the Pacific and Atlantic

      Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak
    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Military technology
      Aukus: the industrial challenges of delivering a new defence pact

      The deal to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines will test the countries’ abilities to share technology

      A montage with Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak and Anthony Albanese in the foreground and a British Astute class sub in background
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Australia to buy US submarines to bridge gap before UK-design boats

      Multi-stage Aukus pact will culminate in 2040s with next- generation nuclear-powered fleet

      Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Britain to play bigger role in Aukus submarine deal than envisaged

      UK minister says negotiations have ‘gone our way’ ahead of unveiling of new designs

      Australian submarine docked
    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      News in-depthUS foreign policy
      UK and Australia urge Washington to ease secrecy rules in security pact

      Allies fear an unwillingness to share sensitive information and technology could hamper Aukus

      A submarine in port with the sun low in the sky
    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      White House optimistic on tech sharing for Aukus security pact

      Top US official sees ‘pathway’ for allies to build nuclear-powered submarines for Australia

      Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin in Darwin, Australia
    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      US foreign policy
      US to ‘deepen’ defence ties with Australia in face of China threat

      Top military officials and diplomats meet amid rising concern about potential conflict over Taiwan

      Lloyd Austin
    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      The Big Read
      Australia’s defence dilemma: projecting force or provoking China?

      The country is boosting military spending, strengthening alliances and demanding a seat at the ‘big table’ of global affairs

      Illustration of military vessels and aircraft, personnel in combat gear and a globe
    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      European Union
      France and Germany seek to move beyond tensions with Paris talks

      Key EU allies Macron and Scholz have clashed in recent months on issues from energy to defence

      Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz at the Elysée Palace in Paris
    • Sunday, 3 July, 2022
      News in-depthNato
      China’s rise pushes Asia-Pacific nations to embrace Nato

      North Atlantic alliance to expand co-operation with Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand

      Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol pose for photos at the Nato summit
    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Paris and Canberra vow to ‘intensify security co-operation’ after Aukus spat

      Newly elected Australian PM visits France to mend relations after cancellation of A$90bn submarines contract

      Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, left, shakes hands with French president Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Friday
    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Aerospace & Defence
      US Coast Guard’s $3.3bn deal boosts Australian shipbuilder Austal

      Contract lifts shares by 25% despite controversy over design faults in boats to counter China in Pacific

      An Austal combat ship rolls out of an assembly bay in the US
    • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
      Australia to pay $600mn to French defence company edged out by Aukus

      Settlement for scrapped submarine deal critical to reset of strained relations with Paris

      Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean arrives for a logistics port visit on April 1, 2021 in Hobart, Australia
    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      News in-depthUS foreign policy
      Biden bids to boost alliances in Asia and affirm commitment to region

      US president visits South Korea and Japan as worries grow Ukraine war has diverted focus from China

      US president Joe Biden and deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman attend the US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations special summit at the state department on Saturday
    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      US foreign policy
      US to invest $150mn in south-east Asia in attempt to counter China

      Initiatives come as White House is pushing to reinvigorate alliances in the face of Beijing

      People on a crossing bridge in Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      G7
      Modi invited to G7 summit as west seeks to weaken New Delhi’s Russian ties

      Indian prime minister to be special guest at next month’s leaders’ meeting in Germany

      German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi shake hands
    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      Biden announces US, UK and Australia co-operation on hypersonic weapons

      Expansion of trilateral security pact is response to rapid expansion of Chinese military

      An artist’s impression of a hypersonic missile provided by aerospace and defence company Raytheon
    • Monday, 7 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Australia plans submarine base as ‘autocrats’ take aim at the world order

      Scott Morrison says Ukraine invasion is a wake-up call and pleads for stronger alliances

      Chinese navy sailors march in formation during a parade in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 2019
    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      UK foreign policy
      UK foreign secretary calls on allies to curb rise of Russia and China

      Liz Truss urges liberal governments to ‘face down global aggressors’

      Liz Truss
    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
      Asia-Pacific
      Japan and Australia sign defence pact in face of more assertive China

      Deal to promote joint military exercises cements ties between two close US allies

      Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australia’s leader Scott Morrison attend a virtual summit to sign their security pact, the Reciprocal Access Agreement
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