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Overnight, US President Biden, Australian Prime Minister Morrison and UK Prime Minister Johnson released plans for the implementation of AUKUS. Critically, the development of hypersonic and counter-hypersonic capabilities were a new addition to the defence agreement. As United States Studies Centre Research Fellow Dr Peter Lee said in State of the United States, the Pentagon, “wants to counter some of China’s technological developments such as testing a hypersonic missile and improving its nuclear arsenal.”
