Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarines could operate near Taiwan and a group of Japan-controlled islands and act as a deterrent to China in the region, said former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who negotiated the technology acquisition deal with the United States and Britain.
While acknowledging that sending the submarines to those specific locations was not necessarily the reason behind Australia’s push for nuclear-powered submarines, Morrison said in an interview in Sydney on Thursday that the Taiwan Strait and the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea “present potential flashpoints and conflicts which could very much draw Australia in,” given its own interests.
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