Category : News
Author: From The Detail

But make no mistake, the decision of Australia, the USA, and the UK to tighten their security alliance - and provide Australia with the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines - is laden with potential repercussions in the Indo-Pacific region.

The move has infuriated France, with the AUKUS arrangement supplanting a previous deal worth nearly $100 billion for France to supply Australia with diesel-powered submarines, leading the European nation to recall its ambassadors from Australia and the USA.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018813367/why-it-s-not-awkward-to-be-left-out-of-aukus
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Category : Video
Author: China Uncensored

The US, Australia, and the UK are teaming up to counter China—without saying directly that this new alliance is to counter China. As part of the new alliance, called AUKUS, the US has agreed to sell Australia nuclear-powered submarines. This is significant because Australia is the closest of the three geographically to China. Watch this episode of China Uncensored for more on what this alliance means, how China has responded, and why this new alliance has angered France.

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkCX91Efxg
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Category : Defence
Author: Naval Surface Forces

US Navy littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS-18) sails alongside Royal New Zealand Navy auxiliary ship HMNZS Aotearoa, middle, and frigate HMNZS Te Kaha prior to replenishment-at-sea in Philippine Sea on Sep. 20

Article: https://twitter.com/SurfaceWarriors/status/1440714201249452047
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Category : News
Author: Michael Bassett

The bare facts of the defence rupture between New Zealand and the United States in 1984-5 are well known. New Zealand had been a full member of the tri-partite ANZUS alliance with Australia and the United States since 1951. Then, in February 1985, New Zealand's Labour Prime Minister, David Lange, took a step in relation to visits by American nuclear-armed and/or nuclear- powered vessels that resulted in the United States severing military, and most intelligence, ties. The US defence guarantee to New Zealand was withdrawn. Joint military exercises ceased. New Zealand's access to the State Department was reduced, and no ministerial visits to the White House or the Pentagon took place for more than a decade. Many American officials simply lost patience with New Zealand, and with governments that held office after 1984.

Article: http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/articles.php?a=fulbright
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Category : News
Author: Kathrin Hille & Edward White

Rival CPTPP applications set to create regional dilemma at time of geopolitical tensions.

Taiwan has applied to join a major transpacific trade pact just after a week after China filed its own membership bid, pitting the two adversaries against each other in a race to join.

Article: https://www.ft.com/content/cc1e4e0a-803d-43be-9f4d-ba9980a5c203
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Category : News
Author: Reuters

French President Emmanuel Macron will send his ambassador back to the United States next week after President Joe Biden agreed that consulting France before announcing a security pact with Australia could have prevented a diplomatic row, the two sides said on Wednesday.

Last week, France recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Australia and accused Biden of stabbing it in the back after Australia ditched a $40-billion defence contract with Paris for the purchase of submarines and opted for US submarines instead.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/09/prenez-un-grip-boris-johnson-tells-french-president-emmanuel-macron-to-get-a-grip-over-submarine-deal.html
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Category : Opinion
Author: Stuff News

EDITORIAL: New Zealand needn’t view Aukus as if it’s a treehut the big boys won’t let us into.

The newly formed trilateral co-operation pact involving the United States, United Kingdom and Australia is a major development with unsettling implications.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/126447877/hawkish-aukus-not-for-us
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