{"id":60545,"date":"2023-12-15T01:59:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/14\/us-congress-passes-bill-allowing-sale-of-aukus-nuclear-submarines-to-australia"},"modified":"2023-12-15T01:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:59:36","slug":"us-congress-passes-bill-allowing-sale-of-aukus-nuclear-submarines-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60545","title":{"rendered":"US Congress passes bill allowing sale of Aukus nuclear submarines to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation covering a wide range of military issues clears the way for Virginia class vessels to bolster Pacific defence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>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><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US congress has passed legislation allowing the country to sell Virginia class submarines to Australia under the Aukus security pact.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeping legislation covering a wide range of military priorities including Aukus passed the US House of Representatives on Thursday Washington time, a day after it cleared the Senate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/14\/us-congress-passes-bill-allowing-sale-of-aukus-nuclear-submarines-to-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation covering a wide range of military issues clears the way for Virginia class vessels to bolster Pacific defenceGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe US congress has passed legislation allowing the countr&#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":[41,2346,43,1585,322,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545","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=60545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60549,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60545\/revisions\/60549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}