Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for US went missing in Hong Kong

Containers at the terminals at the port in Kwai Chung in Hong Kong, China. F-35 parts bound for the US remain unaccounted for months later after their unplanned diversion to Hong Kong. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters

The Department of Defence is examining how F-35 fighter jet parts bound for the US from Australia were unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong, the acting prime minister, Richard Marles, has said.

Marles said “very much everything that has occurred at the Australian end” would be reviewed, but claimed the technology parts were not “sensitive”, as first reported by Politico over the weekend.