King Charles’ address to the US Congress has been covered over in our US politics blog (check it out here).
But it’s worth noting that Australia got a shout-out, and specifically the Aukus nuclear submarine program, in a section of the speech that pointedly dwelt on the importance of defence ties between the US and UK (and Nato more broadly).
double quotation markOur defence, intelligence and security ties are hardwired together through relationships measured not in years, but in decades.
Today, thousands of US service personnel, defence officials and their families are stationed in the United Kingdom, as British personnel serve with equal pride across 30 American states.
And we have agreed the most ambitious submarine programme in history, Aukus.
And we do so in partnership with Australia, a country of which I am also immensely proud to serve as sovereign.
We do not embark on these remarkable endeavours together out of sentiment.
We do so because they build greater shared resilience for the future, so making our citizens safer for generations to come.
