Sub plot: the AUKUS alliance
The Intelligence from The Economist
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China's Strategy Is to Divide and Conquer, to Pick Out One Member of a Block
Australia would be the only country in the world to operate a nuclear submarine without operating a nuclear reactor. The stuff runs on fuel that is essentially enriched guranium. That's the same stuff, pretty much, that goes into a bomb. So there are big implications for non proliferation. And how do you foresee china reacting to that? Great many different groupings, each explicitly or implicitly, alligned against it.
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