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Australia to build 8 nuclear-powered submarines under new Indo-Pacific security pact
Australia will build eight nuclear-powered submarines under a new Indo-Pacific security partnership with the United States and Britain that analysts say will likely rile China, which will see the pact as an attempt to contain it.
Australia will be only the second country after Britain in 1958 to be given access to US nuclear technology to build nuclear-powered submarines.
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