On the afternoon of the 13th local time, US President Biden, British Prime Minister Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Albanese announced in the United States a plan to provide Australia with nuclear submarines. According to Reuters, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said on the 14th that the plan to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia has raised questions about nuclear proliferation.
According to the report, Peskov told reporters, “There are many questions related to the issue of nuclear non-proliferation. In this regard, we need special transparency, and we need answers to these questions.”
On the 13th local time in the United States, the United States, Britain and Australia issued a joint statement announcing that Australia will purchase up to 5 US nuclear-powered submarines in the next few years. This means that Australia will become the seventh country in the world to have nuclear submarines.
According to Agence France-Presse, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov accused the West of instigating “perennial confrontation” in the Asia-Pacific region on the 14th. “By creating frameworks like AUKUS and pushing NATO’s military infrastructure into Asia, the Anglo-Saxon world is sending a major signal of long-term confrontation,” Lavrov said in a televised comment.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on the 14th that China has repeatedly emphasized that the establishment of the so-called trilateral security partnership between the United States, Britain and Australia to promote cooperation in nuclear submarines and other cutting-edge military technologies is a typical Cold War mentality and will only stimulate an arms race. It undermines the international nuclear non-proliferation system and damages regional peace and stability. Peace-loving countries have expressed serious concern and firm opposition to this.
Wang Wenbin said that the latest joint statement issued by the United States, Britain and Australia shows that the three countries have gone further and further down the wrong and dangerous road for their own geopolitical self-interest, completely ignoring the concerns of the international community.
Source : Soho.com