The office of the leading Republican said the Australian company should not have been awarded a contract over a US builder.
| Leading Republican Ron DeSantis has backed concerns by a party colleague over Australian company Austal’s involvement in helping to build submarines and ships for the US Navy and US Coastguard.
The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, doesn’t want Australia’s Austal building submarines and ships for the US Navy.Mr DeSantis, Florida governor and a former naval officer, is also pushing for tighter controls over US military secrets that could leak to an increasingly aggressive China. Dr Dunn said proprietary US national security information might have been acquired by Beijing through a partnership Austal had with a China-based shipbuilder that ended in 2021.
“Now, if these allegations of [Austal] ties to the CCP are true, the governor’s concerns are all the more salient,” Mr Griffin said.
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