A senior US government official has hinted that next month’s Japan-US summit will discuss technological collaboration between Japan and AUKUS, a security framework of Australia, Britain and the United States. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo on Thursday, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said US President Joe Biden and Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio are likely to discuss the topic at their meeting in Washington. The trilateral AUKUS partnership was launched in 2021 in the face of China’s increasing maritime activities. AUKUS currently has two pillars. One is the deployment of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, and the other is…