AUKUS Allies to Share Intel-Cloud Data to Track Chinese Submarine Movements

Australian intelligence agencies await the development of a new top-secret intelligence cloud that can track Chinese submarines and share data with its AUKUS allies. The cloud is designed to be reciprocal with existing UK and U.S. intel-collection systems. Although not strictly part of the original information-sharing structure of AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States that focuses on the Indo-Pacific region, Pillar Two justifies the policy diversion. Pillar Two of the AUKUS agreement focuses on “jointly developing advanced capabilities.” Pillar One of the AUKUS agreement kickstarted the acquisition by Australia of conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines supplied by the United States....