Carsten Bullemer
A year ago, as the AUKUS security pact exploded into public view, few noticed that billionaire Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, an Australian mining magnate, started to quietly and relentlessly build a big position in Austal, one of America's biggest naval shipbuilders.
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