It’s happened – the long awaited meeting between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Donald Trump has occurred – and the Australian reporting of it has varied from average to woeful. It could have been much worse – but it has not altered the fundamentals of AUKUS Pillar One.
If the US was serious about selling second-hand Virginia class submarines to us, President $TRUMP could authorise the deal now with the transfer occurring in the 2030s – but the US won’t do that. The critical minerals agreement is just as unnecessary as expected.
Back in Australia, there’s some very good news about domestic guided weapons manufacture with a three way deal between ourselves, Lockheed Martin and the US. We also ponder why it is that ministers tell obvious untruths and falsehoods.
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A rare case of a purchaser paying the seller in order to grant the seller the right to sell an item at a time, price, quantity and quality of the sellers choosing.
A unique approach to capability acquisition.
An excellent summary. This is not only the arrangement with the US, but we now have a Treaty with the UK that locks in this methodology.
Does this contract with the United States on Critical Mineral supply include the Critical Minerals we are currently selling to China ?.
Haha! Yes, a lot of our stuff is shipped to China for processing and I’m not sure that’s well understood. If we are so concerned about China’s war machine, maybe we should stop fuelling it.