A year on from Aukus, doubts grow about its future as China muscles up

While some progress has been made, analysts fear China is leaping ahead in capabilities and the defence department doesn't sense the urgency

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When the Aukus deal was announced a year ago, the planning had been so stealthy that no one knew how to pronounce it.

What it pronoucned ow-kus or or-cas? Eventually everyone settled on aw-kus (although the Global Times said that in Chinese it's pronounced Australia cries to death").