Analysis 🔎: Is the West entering a Cold War with China?
Supplying Australia with nuclear submarines is a bold move that heralds a new era of tension, writes Asia editor @dicklp
thetimes.co.uk/article/is-the…
Supplying Australia with nuclear submarines is a bold move that heralds a new era of tension, writes Asia editor @dicklp
thetimes.co.uk/article/is-the…
Tension and unease about the West’s future relationship with China has taken dramatically concrete form with the announcement of AUKUS, the “enhanced trilateral security partnership” between Australia, Britain and the USA
Australia, ranked 59th by size among the world’s military forces, is to be supplied with nuclear submarines by its two partners.
The dream of peaceful competition and co-existence — spirited, vigorous, but harmless rivalry — is melting away.
The dream of peaceful competition and co-existence — spirited, vigorous, but harmless rivalry — is melting away.
“After years of bullying and trade hostility, and watching regional neighbours like the Philippines see encroachment into their waters, Australia didn’t have a choice," said Tom Tugendhat, the Conservative MP and chairman of the foreign affairs committee
The question is how it will help.
There's an argument that a handful of submarines will make little difference in the vast expanse of seaways surrounding Australia
Not enough to justify the accelerating sense of a world dividing into two opposing blocs
There's an argument that a handful of submarines will make little difference in the vast expanse of seaways surrounding Australia
Not enough to justify the accelerating sense of a world dividing into two opposing blocs
Today China denounced the new defence partnership as Cold War thinking, with its state media warning that Australian soldiers would be the “first to die” in a Chinese “counterattack”
thetimes.co.uk/article/french…
thetimes.co.uk/article/french…
Read the full analysis here: thetimes.co.uk/article/is-the…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
