Aukus nuclear submarine deal will be ‘too big to fail’, Richard Marles says

Richard Marles says Australia’s push for a productive relationship with China will continue despite Beijing’s strong criticism of the Aukus deal. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP

Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine deal with the US and the UK will rapidly become “too big to fail”, the deputy prime minister has said.

Richard Marles made the comment in an interview with Guardian Australia’s politics podcast, pushing back at the idea the multidecade Aukus plan could be vulnerable to political changes in both the US and the UK.