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The AUKUS Agreement What is the issue?. The ruffle over the AUKUS agreement continues to prevail as France has expressed its resentment at the Australian action at the G20 press conference. What is AUKUS? • AUKUS is a new trilateral security partnership among The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia for enduring freedom and openness in the Indo-Pacific region. • Under the agreement, America and Britain proposed to transfer technology to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines for Australia within 18 months. • The agreement aims to ensure that there will be enduring freedom and openness in the Indo- Pacific region. • With this Australia becomes the second nation after U.K. that the U.S. has ever shared its nuclear submarine technology with. • The submarines are to be conventionally armed and are powered are powered by nuclear reactors. • It will give Australia naval heft in the Pacific, where China has been particularly aggressive. • The partnership complements several pre-existing similar arrangements for the region like Five Eyes intelligence cooperation initiative, ASEAN, Quad, etc. • The Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance consisting of the US, UK, Australia, Canada & New Zealand. The origins of the Five Eyes can be traced back to XX XX What are the concerns over the emergence of AUKUS? • The ASEAN factor - There is a matter of ASEAN disunity over the emergence of AUKUS. • Even though XXXXX is not a defence alliance, issues such as the strategic threats posed by China are a matter of concern for AUKUS. • Australia has clearly assured its commitment to ASEAN centrality and its continued support for the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty and the Treaty of Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone. • The China factor – The rise of China, particularly its rapid militarisation and aggressive behaviour, is undoubtedly the trigger for the emergence f the agreement. • The China has criticised XXXXX as an ―exclusive bloc‖ that gravely undermines regional peace and security and reflects a Cold War mentality. What is the significance of this decades old partnership? • The U.S. and the U.K. have enjoyed a special defence partnership for decades and have fought together as allies, together with Australia, in the Second World War. • The U.S. shared nuclear weapons technology with the U.K. following the merging of the latter‘s nuclear weapons programme with the American Manhattan Project as early as in 1943. • The first U.K. test was conducted in 1952 in the Montebello Islands in Aus...
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