Australia to get nuclear submarines in new deal with US, UK, sending potential message to China [Michael Collins] WASHINGTON – The United States is forming a security partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom that will allow them to share defense technology in a move that could be seen as sending a message [to an aggressive China](/story/news/politics/2021/03/18/us-china-meeting-alaska-uyghurs-trade-retaliation-table/4718787001/) . The new partnership, which will be known as AUKUS, will enable the three countries to share artificial intelligence, undersea capabilities and other advanced technologies and deepen cooperation on a range of defense capabilities in the [Indo-Pacific](/story/news/politics/2021/04/16/president-biden-japanese-prime-minister-suga-discuss-china-olympics/7241613002/) region. One of the working group’s…