{"id":58954,"date":"2023-10-04T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/04\/aukus-alliance-weaken-china-deterrence-research-paper-submarine-deal"},"modified":"2023-10-04T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T05:21:08","slug":"aukus-could-weaken-china-deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58954","title":{"rendered":"Aukus could weaken China deterrence,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New report airs arguments for and against nuclear-powered submarine sale to Australia <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/oct\/04\/australia-news-live-patrick-dodson-noel-pearson-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-fire-victoria-nsw-bega-floods\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Doubts about Australia\u2019s willingness to join forces with the US in a war against China are being cited by congressional researchers as a potential obstacle to the Aukus nuclear-powered submarine deal.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/RL\/RL32418\">new research paper<\/a> looks at the US plan to sell Australia between three and five Virginia-class submarines in the 2030s but suggests the idea \u201ccould weaken deterrence of potential Chinese aggression\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/04\/aukus-alliance-weaken-china-deterrence-research-paper-submarine-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New report airs arguments for and against nuclear-powered submarine sale to Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDoubts about Australia\u2019s willingness to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2346,43,645,1585,50,45,473,47,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-us-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58955,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954\/revisions\/58955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}