{"id":594722,"date":"2026-04-09T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594722\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:49:08","slug":"aukus-cements-the-us-and-australian-alliance-but-at-what-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594722\/","title":{"rendered":"AUKUS cements the US and Australian alliance. But at what cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Financial Review reports that AUKUS is expected to endure under the Trump administration because it serves US strategic interests, but concerns are growing about whether the $368 billion program to acquire nuclear-powered submarines stacks up for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>USSC Director of Research Jared Mondschein was quoted in the article, saying the alliance would last beyond the current president because the two countries&#8217; interests were aligned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Financial Review reports that AUKUS is expected to endure under the Trump administration because it serves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-594722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}