{"id":762752,"date":"2021-09-16T14:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762752"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:29:05","slug":"us-enters-nuclear-sub-partnership-with-uk-and-australia-to-take-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-enters-nuclear-sub-partnership-with-uk-and-australia-to-take-on-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US Enters Nuclear Sub Partnership With UK and Australia To Take on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-enters-nuclear-sub-partnership-with-uk-and-australia-to-take-on-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.787550744249\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">China says agreement is &#8216;severely damaging&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-scaled-e1631813038263.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Australia-sub-deal-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t(L-R) Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton, Foreign Minister Marise Payne, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrive to pose for a group photograph at the State Department in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2021. &#8211; The US announced a new alliance September 15 with Australia and Britain to strengthen military capabilities in the face of a rising China, with Canberra to get a nuclear submarine fleet and US cruise missiles. (Photo by Andrew Harnik \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 September 16, 2021 2:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"82.377142857143\">\n<p><span>American, British, and Australian officials forged an agreement allowing Australia to construct eight nuclear-powered submarines in a move to counter China\u2019s growing aggression in the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The defense partnership\u2014which will go by the moniker <\/span><span>AUKUS<\/span><span>\u2014is the first time the United States will share advanced nuclear submarine technology with an ally since 1958. Leaders of the countries cited a changing security environment in the region as grounds for the agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Our world is becoming more complex, especially here in our region, the Indo-Pacific,&#8221; Australian prime minister Scott Morrison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australia-build-eight-nuclear-powered-submarines-under-new-indo-pacific-security-2021-09-16\/\">said<\/a>. &#8220;To meet these challenges, to help deliver the security and stability our region needs, we must now take our partnership to a new level.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Experts said the massive naval and nuclear buildup of the Chinese Communist Party forced the defense pact. China has the largest navy in the world, and satellite imagery shows Beijing has rapidly expanded its nuclear arsenal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<\/span><span>Nothing is more provocative to China than nuke stuff and submarine stuff,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/16\/world\/australia\/australia-china-submarines.html\">said<\/a> Oriana Skylar Mastro, an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow who specializes in defense policy and China. &#8220;[The pact] suggests that Australia is willing to take some real risks in its relationship to stand up to China.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The agreement effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/french-furious-at-biden-for-cutting-them-out-of-submarine-deal\/ar-AAOvpka\">axed<\/a> a $90 billion deal between a French defense contractor and Australia for 12 diesel-powered submarines, a less advanced version of the American systems offered to Australia. French foreign minister <\/span><span>Jean-Yves Le Drian said Canberra\u2019s decision to scuttle the deal was &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and that his country felt &#8220;stabbed in the back,&#8221; saying the American submarine deal looked like something that former president Donald Trump would do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese officials expressed concern over the deal and Australia\u2019s defensive alignment with the United States and Britain. China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-06-07\/how-beijing-shot-itself-in-the-foot-with-its-trade-war\/100194386\">waged<\/a> a trade war with Australia throughout 2020 and 2021, attempting to curb increasingly hawkish views in the country toward China. But that effort appears to have backfired with the deal\u2019s signing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;[The defense agreement is] severely damaging regional peace and stability, intensifying an arms race, and damaging international nuclear non-proliferation efforts,&#8221; Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australia-get-us-nuclear-submarine-technology-china-looms-large-2021-09-15\/\">said<\/a> on Thursday. &#8220;China always believes that any regional mechanism should conform to the trend of peace and development of the times and help enhance mutual trust and cooperation. \u2026 It should not target any third party or undermine its interests.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security China says agreement is &#8216;severely damaging&#8217;  (L-R) Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton, Foreign Minister Marise Payne, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}