BEIJING is in a panic over Australia’s decision to fast-track its fleet of nuclear submarines, according to Taiwanese intelligence. Taipei’s defence sources said this week that Chinese officials were caught off guard by the AUKUS partnership and viewed it as a “major…
TRADE discussions between the European Union and Australia have been abruptly suspended as Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan was in transit to continue the negotiations. The snap move comes after French displeasure at Canberra’s decision to cancel a $90b submarine project, following…
SCOTT Morrison has cancelled the Defence Force’s order for conventional submarines moving instead to purchase a nuclear fleet. Incurring an eye-watering $3.5b cost to break the $90b French contract signed by former PM Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister Morrison said the cost was…
MALCOLM Turnbull’s myopic investment in yesterday’s technology, today, for tomorrow, even managed to skip nuclear in his race for the past. In an interview with Defence News the US Navy’s top officer Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday says he has…
