How was the AUKUS announcement perceived on the international stage ?
The recent announcement of a new Anglosphere-minded collective security pact in Asia-Pacific between the US🇺🇸, the UK🇬🇧 and Australia🇦🇺, labeled as AUKUS.
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The recent announcement of a new Anglosphere-minded collective security pact in Asia-Pacific between the US🇺🇸, the UK🇬🇧 and Australia🇦🇺, labeled as AUKUS.
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#AUKUS
#NuclearSubmarines
#EuropeanUnion
The decision from Washington to equip the Australian submarine fleet with American nuclear technology, made waves not only in Asia, but Europe as well.
Upgrading the Australian fleet with nuclear-powered submarines as part of the US decision to close a historical taboo in Washington on the sharing of nuke tech. with other states,might be a turning pt. for Western alliances &a new chapter in strategic security cooperation,or not.
🇨🇳For China, AUKUS and equipping Australia with nuclear-powered submarines is a threat to China's fleet and China's interests in the region.
Beijing Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, warned that the new trilateral agreement between Washington, London and Canberra could raise the risks of nuclear proliferation in the Pacific.
🇫🇷For France, the submarine deal is an economic punch given by the US to a NATO ally. Before Australia
gave its go-ahead for the purchase of nuclear-powered submarines from the US, Canberra was to purchase conventionally submarines from France.
gave its go-ahead for the purchase of nuclear-powered submarines from the US, Canberra was to purchase conventionally submarines from France.
The cancellation of the deal cost Paris about $60 billion and led to harsh criticisms from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a "unilateral, brutal and unpredictable" American decision, followed by the recall of the French ambassador to Washington and Canberra.
🇪🇺 For the European Union, the formation of AUKUS and the Australian submarines upgrading without any US consultation with European partners is seen as a foreign policy decision made exclusive to the English-speaking world.
that might spark an old controversy in Brussels over the EU strategic autonomy from its volatile partner across the Atlantic. In the words of current EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, the European Union must "exist for itself, since the others exist for themselves".
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