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| China decries US, Britain, Australia security partnership |
| 2021-09-17 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] China’s foreign ministry on Thursday decried a new US-Britannia-Australia security partnership that will involve helping Canberra acquire nuclear-powered submarines, saying the three countries are damaging regional peace and stability. China will closely monitor the situation, ministry front man Zhao Lijian told a daily news briefing in Beijing. UK DEFENSE INDUSTRY WILL GET A BOOST FROM PACT Britannia’s defense industry will get a boost from a new nuclear submarine pact to share US and British technology with Australia, defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday. Wallace said the pact was not a "betrayal" of the French, whose own submarine contract with Australia was canceled. "There will be a boost for the British defense industry in this collaboration because we have sub-systems that Australia doesn’t have that we will be able to offer into that"," Wallace told the BBC. IAEA The UN nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that Australia, Britannia and the US had informed it of their three-way security partnership that will give Australia access to US technology to build nuclear submarines. The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that the countries had informed it "that a critical objective of this cooperation will be to maintain ’the strength of both the nuclear non-proliferation regime and Australia’s exemplary non-proliferation credentials’ and that they will be ’engaging with the IAEA throughout the coming months’." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Now RT (ok, ok) is reporting tha France has recalled it's ambassadors from the US and Australia for 'consultations' about cancelling the sub contact. The butthurt is large; appearantly someone's bribe check isn't going to come through. Or maybe the Aussies just heard about the french extended warranties. Had an interesting experience, evening radio news, very pro Biden, was like, "This has been decades in the making." then went on to pronounce the French ambassador's name in an over accent which would make the voice actor for Pepe le Pew sound like HAL9000. That is, this is not Biden's doing and its about time somebody cheesed off those testy French. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-09-17 22:17 |
| #8 ^ Strongly-Worded. Oh! The humanity! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-09-17 20:36 |
| #7 Looks like we got us a demarche… |
| Posted by: Grunter 2021-09-17 20:26 |
| #6 Now RT (ok, ok) is reporting tha France has recalled it's ambassadors from the US and Australia for 'consultations' about cancelling the sub contact. The butthurt is large; appearantly someone's bribe check isn't going to come through. Or maybe the Aussies just heard about the french extended warranties. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-17 16:50 |
| #5 Tie Me Kangaroo Down |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-17 09:11 |
| #4 ^ "That's why we're getting the fooking subs, ya wankers!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-09-17 09:08 |
| #3 Furious China issues bone-chilling warning subs deal could 'make Australia a potential target for a NUCLEAR strike' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-17 08:39 |
| #2 1. Far gone, mate 2. Does a kangaroo shit in the outback? 3. Nay, not genuine |
| Posted by: Zenobia Squank3004 2021-09-17 03:00 |
| #1 To what extent is Australia's political class already beholden to the CCP? Is China complaining publicly but actually expecting to benefit from this since nuclear sub technology will be transferred via Australia? If the CCP's influence on Australia is negligible and the complaints are genuine; does the CCP expect Australia to acquire a nuclear deterrent? |
| Posted by: Elmusose Tingle3929 2021-09-17 01:30 |