Britain and US will help Australia build nuclear powered subs to combat China

Britain and the US last night hailed a deal to help Australia build nuclear-powered subs to combat Chinese aggression.

The AUKUS defence alliance will share nuclear secrets to give Australia its first fleet of the vessels.

UK-based firms Babcock, BAE and Rolls-Royce are likely to help build the stealth subs. They are faster and can stay submerged longer than Australia’s current diesel-electric Collins-class fleet.

The move is likely to enrage French ministers as reports Down Under last night claimed that a £48billion deal with France for 12 non-nuclear subs would now be scrapped.

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Britain and US will help Australia build nuclear-powered subs to combat China

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[benchippy]

Australia needs help to combat the lunatics in power! If china’s such a problem why we keep giving Chinese companies government contracts?

[markbattersby]

What a good idea we can give Chinese companies the contracts to build them with the new tax hikes. we are so clever!

[unoriginal_username]

I notice that New Zealand isn’t there given how close they’ve become with China lately

[ericcressly]

Yeah Boris we have a never ending pot of money all coming out of our newly raised taxes!!!

[winduslel]

In case you're wondering where your tax had been spent🤷‍♂️ A war ship for "national security" against the enemies from 15k miles away instead of the homeless domestic people under the bridge.

[CapBritain]

Why would you dislike this? - UK US and Australia once fought together in WW2 and now they're arming up and making Australia Safe again

[lucapuzzoli]

Guess who's gonna pay for it! That's right us! Tax Payers!

[robknight]

Who remembers when UK we’re going to let China build nuclear power stations lmao

[dawnb]

They can't afford £20 a week to stop children going hungry....
Lets spend billions on a threat. Smh.

[sirfrayofbentos]

For people freaking thinking he is talking about nuclear weapons skip to >> 0:30 - "To help Australia aquire a fleet of 'nuclear powered' submarines, emphasising of course that the submarines in question, will be 'powered' by nuclear reactors, 'not armed with nuclear weapons' and our work will be fully inline with our non-proliferation obligations"

[monsieurfoupierre]

The French tried to build subs for Australia already and they failed

[qa]

Look who's talking, China has been most peaceful nation that rose to super power, comparing to US.

[buddha]

What about our manufacturing, ? Boris the Conservatives have always destroyed our own manufacturing base, but supported manufacturing overseas. 💩💩💩

[NS-kchb]

I don’t think China’s the problem in Australia right now 😂

[sallybennett]

Oh look...building back better in action.

[ugwxerw]

Give them the absolute state of authoritarianism is Australia I don’t think we should be giving them more power….

[joshfrench]

Some of these comments down below are absolute gold 😆. I suppose they come from the same type of people that will be wondering why britain suddenly speaks chinese because they invaded us.

[sinalbertckwong]

India:.... me too?
US:.... wait in line...will attend to you when we had the time.!!!!

[andy]

Lol. The UK will build, the Aussies receive and the Americans will pay. Sounds about right.

[samtheguru]

Wow, some of the below comments....but then again this is the Sun I guess.