Why would India🇮🇳 benefit the most from AUKUS ?
The new Asia-Pacific security pact between the US🇺🇸, the UK🇬🇧 and Australia🇦🇺, referred as AUKUS, made waves in China🇨🇳, France🇫🇷and the EU🇪🇺
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The new Asia-Pacific security pact between the US🇺🇸, the UK🇬🇧 and Australia🇦🇺, referred as AUKUS, made waves in China🇨🇳, France🇫🇷and the EU🇪🇺
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https://twitter.com/Volatic_Vishrut/status/1440301550497251337
No matter how suddenly this might have come, there is a state that may benefit the most from it, India 🇮🇳.
•Firstly, India may welcome the formation of AUKUS, as a stable, long-term US commitment to counter China in the region.
•Firstly, India may welcome the formation of AUKUS, as a stable, long-term US commitment to counter China in the region.
Moreover, in taking the UK within the agreement, Washington succeeded in committing London to take a more proactive role in defending "a free and open Indo-Pacific".
•Secondly, for India the formation of AUKUS outside the QUAD should be seen as complementary. rather than a downplay of the latter, in forming a complex security network in the region (one that can actively respond to Chinese assertiveness).
The formation of distinct security coalitions could be seen as a more pragmatic approach in a complex geopolitical region than the establishment of a whole NATO-like security organization.
This can be highlighted by India's presence in the QUAD, its non-participation in AUKUS given the "nuclear nature" of the agreement (India has its own nuclear capabilities, unlike Australia),and India's separate bilateral maritime relations with Japan, Australia and France.
Therefore, India should welcome any initiative aimed at counteracting China in the region, whether or not with Indian participation.
•Thirdly, AUKUS could represent a revival of the Anglosphere-minded approach in the Pacific. India feared that the Anglosphere bloc gave in to China amid growing economic relations between its members and Beijing.
After all, Australia disagreed with the first attempt to form the QUAD in the early 2000s, the UK declared a new "golden age" in Sino-British relations during David Cameron's tenure, and New Zealand🇳🇿,
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which is less enthusiastic about nuclear technology and does not share with Washington the same aversion to Beijing, said no to Wellington's participation in AUKUS.
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