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Leading article Australia

Subs deserved to be sunk

25 September 2021

9:00 AM

25 September 2021

9:00 AM

The argument put forward by Christopher Pyne and fellow Turnbullites that back in 2016 it was impossible to foresee the belligerence of China and the changing geopolitical dynamics that would make the French diesel submarines obsolete before they’d even been designed is as self-serving and fatuous as it is plain wrong.

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