The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom are traveling 'further down the wrong and dangerous path for their own geopolitical self-interest', China's Foreign Ministry has said. 9News
to build a new fleet of eight nuclear-propelled submarines in Adelaide to enter service in the 2040s under the costliest defence project in the nation's history.
Biden emphasised the ships would not carry nuclear weapons of any kind. Albanese has said he doesn't think the deal will sour its relationship with China, which he noted had improved in recent months.Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, meets with US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese, left, at Point Loma naval base in San Diego.
Marles said it had taken a huge diplomatic effort for months ahead of Monday's announcement of the deal, including making more than 60 calls to regional and world leaders. Australia had even offered to keep China in the loop, he said.US President Joe Biden stressed the AUKUS deal did not involve Australia acquiring nuclear armed submarines.
AUKUS is one of several US-led security arrangements that have drawn fire from Beijing, which routinely rails against regional blocs from which it is excluded as vestiges of the Cold War. US military and political support for Taiwan have also drawn more threatening responses from Beijing in recent years.
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