Australia made the calculation that China perceived the appearance of new nuclear submarines as a threat. About this CBS News TV channel told Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
“In fact, we wanted to achieve this,” said politician. At the same time, he noted that he did not see the reasons for Beijing to take some response steps against Australia. Morrison clarified that the Aukus Alliance was not directed against China, but is a “positive partnership not against someone, but for something.”
On September 25, the former Chinese ambassador to UN Sha Tzukan said that China should prepare to apply nuclear weapons to fight new alliances that form the United States, including Aukus. The diplomat believes that it is time to “revise and adjust” a long-standing commitment not to apply nuclear strikes first, since the US military presence increases. In his opinion, the current policy of Beijing gave “moral authority”, but “is not suitable” as an answer to Washington’s policy, which can threaten security in the region.
September 16, USA, Britain and Australia concluded an agreement on defense partnership. Alliance called Aukus (Australia, United Kingdom, USA). The purpose of the transaction is to protect and defend the common interests of the parties in the Indo-Pacific region and the combination of efforts in the development of the defense sector.
Later, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that the appearance of the defense alliance led by the United States was a reaction to the EU’s desire to autonomy against the background of hasty exit from Afghanistan. “The plant” of the order, based on the rules, “instead of unconditional compliance with international law, is fraught with hazardous recurrences of block policies, creating dividing lines between the Western Group and the rest of the states,” said the head of Russian diplomacy.