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AUKUS is an imperialist military alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States that was formed on 15 September, 2021.[1] The United States has about 50 military bases in Australia and plans to use Australia to launch an attack against the People's Republic of China.[2]
AUKUS aims to increase Australia's “…shared commitment to the international rules-based order…” by providing the country with technology to build nuclear submarines, cruise missiles and artifical intelligence.[1][3] The alliance also aims to further expand the intelligence community by “…[promoting] deeper information and technology sharing.”[3]
Since the formation of the alliance Australia has cancelled a major arms deal with Europe and retired another early, replacing both deals with the U.S. companies.[4][5]
Nuclear submarines
The development of AUKUS is a further escalation in the Asia-Pacific that will see the building of eight nuclear-powered submarines. The deal caused tensions in Australia-France relations as a 90 billion AUD contract for twelve conventional submarines from the French Naval Group was cancelled.[4] The cancellation of the deal still saw Australia pay 835 million AUD to France.[6] The alliance was also seen by France as losing influence over an ally for their own imperial conquests in the region.[6][7]
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