Aukus Deal ‘not intended to be adversarial’ towards China – Johnson

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the new security partnership between the US, UK and Australia is not intended as an ‘adversarial’ move against China. The trilateral defence pact, which will include helping Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines, has been criticised as ‘irresponsible’ by China
The UK, US and Australia have announced a historic security pact, dubbed AUKUS, in the Asia-Pacific in what has been seen as a clear effort to counter China.


It will allow Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, using technology provided by the US.
Making a statement on Thursday on the new defence pact, the Prime Minister said: “I think it is important for the House to understand that AUKUS is not intended to be adversarial towards any other power.
“But it merely reflects the close relationship that we have with the United States and with Australia, the shared values that we have and the sheer level of trust between us that enables us to go to this extraordinary extent of sharing nuclear technology in the way that we are proposing to do.


“Obviously, we also have a shared interest in promoting democracy, human rights, freedom of navigation and freedom of trade around the world. And I think those are values and perspectives that I hope the whole House will support.”
Johnson has told MPs the Indo-Pacific was becoming the “geopolitical centre of the world” and was “ever more important” to British trade and jobs.
He said: “The integrated review of foreign and defence policy described Britain’s renewed focus on the Indo-Pacific, a region that is fast becoming the geopolitical centre of the world, ever more important for British trade and therefore for British jobs and British livelihoods.


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