{"id":55858,"date":"2025-10-22T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/aukus-should-expand-to-other-shipbuilding-nations-us-congressman-suggests-as-albanese-returns-to-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:55:35","slug":"aukus-should-expand-to-other-shipbuilding-nations-us-congressman-suggests-as-albanese-returns-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/aukus-should-expand-to-other-shipbuilding-nations-us-congressman-suggests-as-albanese-returns-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Aukus should expand to other shipbuilding nations, US congressman suggests, as Albanese returns to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of US House armed services committee says Washington must substantially boost its own defence manufacturing capacity before it can sell nuclear submarines to Australia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/oct\/23\/australia-news-live-pauline-hanson-barnaby-joyce-one-nation-nationals-weather-wind-damage-melbourne-sydney-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A leading US congressman admits America must substantially boost its defence manufacturing capacity in order to sell Australia nuclear submarines under Aukus, floating the idea of adding Japan, South Korea or Norway to the pact to help build more ships.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Albanese has returned from Washington DC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/oct\/21\/diplomatic-triumph-or-capitulation-albanese-found-donald-trump-in-a-heavenly-mood-but-the-devil-may-be-in-the-detail\">with Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement of Aukus<\/a> and a fresh show of support from long-time backers of the military pact in the US congress. Both Republican and Democratic politicians reaffirmed their support to help Australia buy second-hand American submarines, even as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/oct\/20\/aukus-submarine-workforce-nuclear-powered-boats-australia\">concerns still remain<\/a> about whether US shipyards \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/28\/aukus-australia-nuclear-submarines-us-subs-navy-admiral\">currently not working fast enough <\/a>to meet America\u2019s own requirements \u2013 can produce enough boats to sell any extras.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/oct\/23\/aukus-should-expand-us-congressman-shipbuilding-nations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of US House armed services committee says Washington must substantially boost its own defence manufacturing capacity before it can sell nuclear submarines to Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A leading US congressman admits America must substantially boost its &#8230; <a title=\"Aukus should expand to other shipbuilding nations, US congressman suggests, as Albanese returns to Australia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/aukus-should-expand-to-other-shipbuilding-nations-us-congressman-suggests-as-albanese-returns-to-australia\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aukus should expand to other shipbuilding nations, US congressman suggests, as Albanese returns to Australia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}