Tag: AUKUS

Making the shift to nuclear-powered submarines: safety first (Peter Briggs, The Strategist)

The agreement for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) is the most significant part of the recent AUKUS announcement. The offer of assistance from...

It’s Not About Submarines. It’s about Software (Nicole Camarillo, Oliver Lewis, Defense One)

The Australia-United Kingdom-United States, or AUKUS, security partnership is about much more than submarines. It is a down payment on an even more momentous commitment...

“Strategic autonomy” is more dangerous for Europe than AUKUS (Benjamin Tallis, The Interpreter)

An article this week in The Interpreter argued that, in the wake of AUKUS, Europeans should embrace the decline of NATO, “break free” of reliance on the US...

China warns against AUKUS, to make meetings routine with Pacific island countries, enhancing ties to higher level (Deng Xiaoci, Global Times)

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned of nuclear spill from the tripartite alliance AUKUS, during a meeting with foreign ministers of...

Afghanistan, AUKUS and European Strategic Autonomy (Pol Morillas, CIDOB)

Security and defence are increasingly grabbing the spotlight in European public debates. In just a few weeks, the withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan...

Accordo AUKUS: il ruolo della tecnologia nella geopolitica del futuro (Andrea Strippoli Lanternini, Agenda Digitale)

Le nuove tecnologie sono al centro delle politiche delle potenze mondiali per il prossimo futuro: l’accordo AUKUS, di fatto, dimostra come per vincere le...

Why Indonesia should embrace AUKUS (Arrizal Jaknanihan, East Asia Forum)

The announcement of AUKUS — a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States — sparked concern over escalating rivalry...

The fault lines in Australian and Indonesian views of their strategic future (Editorial Board, ANU – East Asia Forum)

The irate French reaction to the AUKUS defence deal provided plenty of fodder for the international media. Much has been made of Australia’s duplicitous...

AUKUS mixed reception a symptom of strategic fault-lines in Southeast Asia (Evan A Laksmana, East Asia Forum)

AUKUS, the new trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States that launched last month, has had a mixed reception....

ASEAN members bicker over AUKUS (Zhao Yusha and Yan Yuzhu, Global Times)

The new tripartite defense alliance AUKUS, formed with the intention of intimidating China, will strain ASEAN's unity and integration as regional countries are divided...

AUKUS: Why Beijing didn’t go ballistic (Jia Deng, The Interpreter)

China was expected to be furious about the recently signed AUKUS security pact. After all, it is generally believed that the deal to provide...

Russia expresses concern over AUKUS pact at meeting with US diplomat (TASS)

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a meeting with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on Tuesday that...

AUKUS, nuclear submarines and the tyranny of default thinking (Albert Palazzo, The Strategist)

Now that the initial euphoria over the announcement of the AUKUS agreement and Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear submarines has passed, it’s time to...

AUKUS and Australia–Indonesia relations: 2+2 clever by half (David Engel, The Strategist)

Amid the commentary on Australia’s handling of France over the decision to switch to nuclear-powered submarines, Canberra’s treatment of another close partner and the...

More Than Just Subs: AUKUS Will Change Pacific Air Ops as Well (Douglas D. Jackson, Defense One)

The Biden administration’s moves to strengthen diplomatic and military ties to Australia by—among other actions—sharing U.K. and U.S. nuclear-powered submarine technology through the creation...

Oz’s choice—AUKUS and the break with Paris (Manoj Joshi, ORF)

Australia certainly mismanaged the emergence of the AUKUS, but it had few alternatives. Actually, the decision is  another “achievement” of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy....