WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official is on a tour of the Indo-Pacific to discuss submarines and defense spending, Nikkei Asia has learned, tackling two topics that have unnerved allies in recent weeks.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia John Noh, who has been nominated as assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, is visiting the United States Studies Centre in Sydney to talk about the U.S.-Australia alliance and AUKUS — the security partnership that will see the U.S. and the U.K. provide Australia with nuclear-powered conventionally armed submarines.
