Professor Peter Dean shares his Top 10 reasons #AUKUS will survive the US election regardless of who wins.
#7: We're doing everything Trump said he wanted US allies to do.
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Number seven, add the investment we're making and the good deal that AUKUS is for the United States to the fact that Australia is now spending over 2%, 2.2% of GDP on defence and the fact that our new National Defence Strategy and integrated investment plan has charted out a 10-year program of increasing our defence funding from $55 billion to $100 billion a year.
Add those things together and what are we doing? Everything that Trump said in his last term of office that he wanted US allies to do. Spend more than 2% of GDP, be more self reliant in your own defence and contribute to broader regional deterrence and the balance of power. So we are literally tick, tick, tick every box down the list in contrast to some of the other countries in Europe and around the world that he's not so, necessarily, happy about.
