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re: AUKUS: UK & US Face Global Backlash Re Australia Defence Deal
AUKUS: UK and US Face Global Backlash Over Australia Defence Deal
The UK and US are facing growing international criticism over a new security pact signed with Australia
BBC News 17 SEP 2021.
China has strongly criticised a new defence and security pact between the United States, UK and Australia.
The AUKUS agreement is intended to help deliver stablility in the Indo-Pacific region, which has come under increasing Chinese influence.
The deal will deliver a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to the Australian navy. That has also angered France which was expecting to supply the defence equipment.
China called the pact “extremely irresponsible” and said it would harm the participating countries.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by defence correspondent Jonathan Beale and north America editor Jon Sopel.
'Profound strategic shift'
The pact, which will also see the allies share cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence and other undersea technologies, was described as showing "profound strategic shifts" by the UK's national security adviser Stephen Lovegrove.
It means Australia will become just the seventh nation in the world to operate nuclear-powered submarines.
Mr Lovegrove said the pact was "perhaps the most significant capability collaboration in the world anywhere in the past six decades".
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