The Celestial Empire has already stated that this is an attempt to spread nuclear weapons.
Australia plans to spend a whopping $368 billion ($245 billion) on nuclear submarines. The United States and Great Britain will help to create a nuclear submarine fleet for the country. China has already said that this is an attempt to spread nuclear weapons.
Australia will develop a nuclear fleet within the framework of the AUKUS alliance – this is the country’s military-political alliance with Great Britain and the United States. In the coming years, a new type of boat SSN AUKUS will be developed, after which construction will begin. The vessels should be put into service in the early 2040s.
In addition, it is planned to replenish the Australian submarine fleet with other American-made boats. In the next seven years, the United States intends to sell at least five Virginia-class nuclear submarines to Australia.
Also in Australia will create a base of “underwater rotational forces of the West.” She will be based in Perth. In other words, British and American submarines will constantly be near the continent. The boats will be stationed off the Australian coast by 2027.
Joe Biden called the new agreement part of a commitment to ensure the “freedom and openness” of the Indo-Pacific region, together with the most reliable US allies. Experts said earlier that the goal of AUKUS is to counter China , and the alliance is used by Britain and the United States to strengthen positions in the Pacific region, as well as to unleash an arms race in the region, including nuclear ones.
According to The Guardian, the AUKUS countries exploited a loophole in the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This is the first such case when nuclear technology will be transferred to a country that does not have nuclear weapons. In Australia, they say that there is “nothing wrong” in this and the country will maintain its nuclear-free status.
In China, such cooperation has already been called the threat of nuclear proliferation. According to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, it violates the goals and objectives of the NPT and negatively affects the international nonproliferation system.
Earlier, the Chinese mission to the UN also said that AUKUS threatens the world with the spread of nuclear weapons and further fuels the arms race. This could be a harbinger of Australia’s future nuclear weapon, ICAN says.
AUKUS plans for nuclear submarines for Australia raise many questions, said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“Here, in any case, there are a lot of questions related to the problem of nonproliferation. Of course, special transparency is needed here. And we need to answer the questions that arise,” Peskov said.
“Americans act arrogantly, boorishly. But at the same time, they are strengthening their positions in the Pacific region, including as part of the confrontation with China and the formation of a large anti-Chinese coalition in the Pacific,” political analyst Anton Bredikhin said on Channel Five.
Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating called AUKUS submarine construction the “worst decision” since World War I.
“The country is returning to its former colonial master, Great Britain, to guarantee its security in Asia, but as a result will spend the next half century in subordination to the United States,” he said.
Today, six countries of the world have a nuclear fleet: Russia, the USA, Great Britain, France, China and India. At the same time, the number of Russian submarines will grow: by 2027, the country’s Navy will receive 14 strategic and multi-purpose nuclear submarines – this was reported in 2020 by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexei Krivoruchko. According to him, these are boats of the Borei-A and Yasen-M projects.
Earlier, Notepad said that a submarine filled with tons of cocaine with the dead was caught off the coast of Colombia . On board were 2.6 tons of cocaine and two dead people.
Source: Bloknot
