In Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese inherits the submarine affair

At the time, the secret negotiations had taken place between the emissaries of Donald Trump, the Australian conservative Scott Morrison and his British counterpart Boris Johnson. Designed to be an anti-Chinese deterrent in the Pacific region, the Aukus pact aimed to supply Australia with nuclear attack submarines, while it was under contract with France for Barracuda-class diesel submersibles, and cooperate in the extreme competition field of artificial intelligence and quantum physics.

Reassuring China… and the taxpayer

Today, Labor Anthony Albanese, elected last May, has reconciled with France, promised to calm relations with China but maintains the development of regional alliances – with India and Japan essentially -, all under American sponsorship and British cousinage.

Eighteen months after the signing of the Aukus pact, the San Diego summit should grant Australia three to five American or British nuclear submarines by 2027 until it can build at least ten more. others, probably partly in Adelaide, with British propulsion know-how and American missile armament. His Minister of Defense is already warning China, which is concerned, that these developments do not target it, while Albanese tries to reassure the Australian taxpayer on the 100 billion dollars, at least, that this revolution could cost military.​