{"id":69912,"date":"2025-03-06T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/07\/surface-tension-could-the-promised-aukus-nuclear-submarines-simply-never-be-handed-over-to-australia"},"modified":"2025-03-06T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:00:07","slug":"surface-tension-could-the-promised-aukus-nuclear-submarines-simply-never-be-handed-over-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69912","title":{"rendered":"Surface tension: could the promised Aukus nuclear submarines simply never be handed over to Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the waves<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Australia\u2019s boats just never turn up.<\/p>\n<p>To fanfare and flags, the Aukus deal was presented as a sure bet, papering over an uncertainty that such an ambitious deal could ever be delivered.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/07\/surface-tension-could-the-promised-aukus-nuclear-submarines-simply-never-be-handed-over-to-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the wavesMaybe Australia\u2019s boats just never turn up.To fanfare and flags, the Aukus deal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,2346,43,645,1585,415,2040,981,554,473,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-donald-trump","category-kevin-rudd","category-malcolm-turnbull","category-trump-administration","category-us-military","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\/69912","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69919,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912\/revisions\/69919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}