As usual, everybody is asking the wrong question. AFR.
The Trump administration’s undersecretary for policy, Elbridge Colby, is already leading a review into the AUKUS agreement between Australia, the US and the United Kingdom, and increasingly pushing for firmer commitments about how nuclear submarines would be used.
Citing five sources, the Financial Times reported that Colby had asked Australia and Japan what they would contribute to defend Taiwan from China.