
In a new trilateral partnership announced Wednesday aimed at bolstering Indo-Pacific strategic security efforts, the U.S. and U.K. will help Australia pursue procurement of the country’s first nuclear-powered submarines. President Biden detailed the new partnership, called AUKUS, alongside Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which will begin with an 18-month initiative to inform how Australia will go after the capability. “We want to underscore that this will give Australia the capability for their submarines, basically,…