"The reforms will deliver, in our judgment...a net decrease in regulatory compliance costs, and actually expand the amount of research that can occur internationally without a permit," Hugh Jeffrey, Australia's deputy secretary of strategy, policy, and industry, said today.
The proposed legislation "expands Australia’s backyard to include the US and the UK, but it raises the fence," Chennupati Jagadish, Australian Academy of Science’s president, said.
“I've had up close and personal experience where [US] leaders responsible for certain areas of technology have given direction that [Australia] is to be brought in because we have something to offer,” said Tanya Monro, “and yet, it still gets strangled.”
In a new op-ed, Bill Greenwalt of AEI warns that the Biden administration has not publicly provided workable legislative proposals that would take aim at the ITAR challenges for AUKUS.
The announcement of Austin's visit to Papua New Guinea came in the wake of more signs that that neighboring Solomon Islands continues to move towards China as its key partner.