Australia is joining a new Indo-Pacific security partnership with the U.S. and U.K. that will allow it to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, sparking a rift with France at a time when the Biden administration is pushing allies to counter Chinese assertiveness. Australia, the UK, and the US have announced a new trilateral security partnership, with its first initiative to develop nuclear-powered submarines for Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new alliance called AUKUS<\/strong> (Australia<\/strong>, UK, US<\/strong>) aims to further strengthen the existing and strong security cooperation between the three members of the grouping, and deepen ties in the Indo-Pacific region. With the development of nuclear-powered submarines, Australia will join an elite group of only six countries (India, the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China) that currently operate nuclear-powered submarines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia will also be only the second country to be given access to U.S. nuclear technology to build nuclear-powered submarines, after Britain in 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia is joining a new Indo-Pacific security partnership with the U.S. and U.K. that will allow it to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, sparking a rift with France at a time when the Biden administration is pushing allies to counter Chinese assertiveness. 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