It would not be in Australia’s nor America’s interest for the prime minister to head to China next month with nothing to show on AUKUS from the trip to the White House.
It was the overseas trip that Anthony Albanese didn’t expect to have to fit into an already-crowded travel schedule after the Congressional stand-off over the US federal debt ceiling forced Joe Biden to skip the Quad leaders summit in Australia in May.
Jodie Haydon and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are greeted by the children of Australian embassy staff in Washington before his meeting with the US president.
Nevertheless, Mr Albanese’s point man in Washington, former prime minister and now Australian ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd, is confident the Congressional deadlock over the AUKUS-related legislation will be broken.AUKUS seeks to deepen the US-Australia alliance and build a bigger deterrence against assertive China in a contested and unstable Asia.
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