Tag: AUKUS

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....

AUKUS, Quad alliances created by US erode cooperation format in ASEAN, top diplomat says (TASS)

New AUKUS alliance between the US, the UK, and Australia as well as the four-sided dialogue on security between the US, Japan, India, and...

AUKUS Rocks the Boat in the Indo-Pacific, and it’s not Good News (Marc Julienne, IFRI)

For anyone who still harbored doubts, Washington made crystal clear from the announcement of the new trilateral alliance with Australia and the UK (AUKUS)...

Does the AUKUS submarine deal compromise Australia’s sovereignty? (Stephan Fruehling, The Strategist)

Australia’s decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines—and the decisions by the UK and US to support that endeavour—is momentous. If we’re looking for reliable and...

Indo-Pacific Minilateralism: Did AUKUS Overshadow QUAD? (Roshan Khaniejo, The United Service Institution of India)

The emergence of AUKUS is being widely speculated as a moment of alliance power-shift in the Indo-pacific region. Theorizing whether or not Quad may...

Using AUKUS to Brazen it Out (Sarosh Bana, Vivekananda International Foundation)

The United States’ and the United Kingdom’s overtures to Australia to help it acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered general-purpose attack submarines (SSNs) infuse a...

AUKUS is deeper than just submarines (Arzan Tarapore, East Asia Forum)

Nuclear-powered submarines for Australia was the most eye-catching part of the announcement of ‘AUKUS’, the new trilateral security initiative joining Australia, the United Kingdom...

Should Russia Be Worried by the New AUKUS Alliance? (Andrey Kortunov, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The establishment of a new trilateral military and political alliance consisting of the United States, Australia, and the UK (AUKUS) and the corollary rupture...