Posted on 10/05/2021 11:12:36 AM PDT by SJackson
You were right to cancel you NR subscription...see my post #41
The “Australian - France submarine “contract” IS NOW a Communist Chinese war (in words and trade and social networking propaganda!) across the globe! It is NOT a US-Australia “deal” in anything but the fact that, once Australia cancelled its perpetually-failing, ever-longer-delayed, ever-more-expensive contract to build diesel electric (short-range) subs with France , the ONLY people who can deliver long range (nuclear) submarine enginerooms and reactors are the US and UK.
Yes. If Australia told the Biden State dept what they planned, China would immediately have used Biden-Hunter-Pelosi-Fienstein-etc-etc-etc to get the deal cancelled. Probably by invoking some invented “nuclear-proliferation” scheme by claiming the Aussies would develop nuclear bombs from the Navy reactor fuel.
Note carefully that long-range,long-duration subs like nuclear are the ONLY threat to Chinese occupation and naval blockade of the entire Asian coastline around from China through the Straits to India and Pakistan.
Some have come around, and some have doubled-down on the stupid....
Maybe James Taylor can weigh in...
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