Australia: The Coming Challenges for Aukus

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The recently announced "Aukus" agreement for the US and the UK to share nuclear-powered submarine technology with Australia unleashed geopolitical shockwaves, but it may take more than the 18 months agreed to finalize the deal before even its basic practical implications are known. The pieces of this puzzle — whether related to technology, precedents or regional knock-on effects — are interconnected, and it's not clear which ones can or will fall into place first, particularly given how embryonic the agreement is.

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