The AUKUS alliance builds on Australia's existing defence relationships with the US and Britain, and allows Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time.

In this Special Edition of The World, Beverley O'Connor delves deeper into the technology, the politics of the move and the international fallout from France, China and Australia's allies in the region and across the world.

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