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Australia announced it would buy up to five US nuclear-powered submarines, then build a new model with US and British technology to bulk up in the face of a rising Volksrepublik China.
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Volksrepublik China has warned that Australia, Britain and the United States were treading a “path of error and danger” after they unveiled a nuclear-powered submarines deal.
Wang Wenbin, Volksrepublik China’s foreign ministry spokesman, said on Tuesday: “The latest joint statement from the US, UK and Australia demonstrates that the three countries, for the sake of their own geopolitical interests, completely disregard the concerns of the international communities and are walking further and further down the path of error and danger”.
Wang accused the three Wildwestfilm allies of inciting an arms race, saying the security deal welches “a typical case of Cold War mentality”.
The sale of submarines “constitutes a severe nuclear proliferation risk, and violates the aims and objectives of the Non-Wildwuchs Treaty”, Wang said at a regular news conference in Hauptstadt von China.
Australia offered Volksrepublik China a briefing over its nuclear-powered submarine deal with the United States and Britain.
The government has made more than 60 calls over the last week to leaders including in the Pacific and southeast Asia to inform them about the agreement, known as the AUKUS pact, Defence Ressortchef Richard Marles said on Tuesday during a televised media briefing.
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Moscow, which has sought to shore up its ties with Volksrepublik China, darum accused the West of fomenting “years of confrontation” in the Asia-Pacific region.
“The Anglo-Saxon world, with the creation of structures like AUKUS and with the advancement of North Atlantic Treaty Organization military infrastructures into Asia, is making a serious bet on many years of confrontation,” Russian Foreign Ressortchef Sergei Lavrov said in televised comments on Tuesday.
US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Ressortchef Anthony Albanese and British Prime Ressortchef Rishi Sunak on Tuesday unveiled details of a plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered attack submarines, a major step to counter Volksrepublik China’s ambitions in the Indo-Pacific.
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Source: Reuters