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Understanding AUKUS: The Submarine Deal, Restraining China and Geopolitical Implications
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Understanding AUKUS: The Submarine Deal, Restraining China and Geopolitical Implications

Despite its indifference towards AUKUS, India will welcome the arrangement to support a free and open Indo-Pacific in light of the increasingly assertive attitude of China in the region. India’s concerns regarding "encirclement" by China may also be partially mitigated by AUKUS. The unparalleled rise of China has been one of the most notable geopolitical phenomena. It espouses greater ambitions, and under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, a newly assertive China is pursuing a sophisticated strategy that exploits all elements of state power to strengthen its position in the world. Across much of the Indo-Pacific region, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using military and economic coercion to bully its neighbours. This predatory conduct increases the risk of conflict. Ev...
Macron’s visit to Washington – Attempt to stop a Trade War among Euro-Atlantic nations?
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Macron’s visit to Washington – Attempt to stop a Trade War among Euro-Atlantic nations?

This visit by Macron to Washington further signifies his aspirations of becoming the main representative and leader of the EU. This visit can also be seen as an attempt by both countries to resolve the differences after the AUKUS deal, in which France was sidelined by the UK and the USA. Macron's visit provides an insight into the present economic issues surrounding the EU and the USA, along with the geopolitics that dictates the ties between the two regions. France and the United States are important strategic allies of the Euro-Atlantic, and since times they have been shaping the security in the region. In an attempt to further bolster the relations between the countries, French President Macron visited Washington last week and was wholeheartedly welcomed by US President Biden. T...
Opinion | The Pacific blunder of the West and a nonstarter AUKUS
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Opinion | The Pacific blunder of the West and a nonstarter AUKUS

Alarm bells are ringing in the South Pacific after the government of Solomon Island signed a framework agreement on security cooperation with China. This is big news in the geostrategic circles. However, it seems the world is still obsessing over Ukraine and Russia and this unnecessary preoccupation is now costing America and its Southern Hemisphere allies in their own backyard. Bejing calls the agreement between the Solomon Island and the People's Republic of China, an agreement that seeks "social stability and long-term tranquillity in the Solomon Islands and is not targeted at any third country. The agreement states that China will help maintain social order, protection of the safety of people's lives and property, humanitarian assistance, and natural disaster response,". How...
Strategic Importance of AUKUS – Impact on China and Implication for India
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Strategic Importance of AUKUS – Impact on China and Implication for India

AUKUS is a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America to counter China's hegemony and expansionist policy, specifically in the Indo-pacific region and generally in global politics. The pact was signed on 15 September 2021 and announced cooperatively by US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson and Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison in a virtual meeting. Under this pact, the United States of America will assist Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines, a technology that was previously shared by the US only with Great Britain in 1958. Even though AUKUS was formed with shared objectives, three countries have their aims to join the trilateral alliance. Australia was interested in modernizing its sub...
Why AUKUS is good for India
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Why AUKUS is good for India

Just days ahead of the first Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD, also known as the Quad) between India, the United States, Japan, and Australia, US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia dropped a bombshell with the announcement of another alphabet soup of acronym named AUKUS. The formation of AUKUS is to help the Southern hemisphere behemoth to get its hands on eight nuclear-powered submarines with America sharing its time-tested technology to balance the Pacific with the aim not to arm the new subs with nuclear weapons which one must take with a pinch of salt. But for Australia, this new deal means that it will now have access to information & technology sharing, integration of security in defense-related science, a...
US, Britain, Australia Nuclear submarine deal – Reshaping Indo-Pacific relations
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US, Britain, Australia Nuclear submarine deal – Reshaping Indo-Pacific relations

https://youtu.be/iW1INPwJUfc The U.S., Britain and Australia have announced they are forming a new security alliance to counter the rise of China in the Pacific. The new alliance will help equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and reshape relations in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. Japan, Taiwan and Australia have been concerned about China’s aggressive actions in the South China Sea and it's hegemonic attitude. With China's influence growing in the region after Afghan debacle, the US needs allies to counter the rise of China. Britain on its part seeks to reassert its global position after it left the European Union under Brexit. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new alliance would allow the three nations to focus on an increasingly complicated part o...
US UK and Australia Submarine Deal (AUKUS): Its reflection on the Region and India
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US UK and Australia Submarine Deal (AUKUS): Its reflection on the Region and India

New partnership will include deepened cooperation between the U.S., U.K. and Australia across emerging security areas such as cyber, artificial intelligence, quantum technology and undersea capabilities.President Biden has made addressing competition and aggression from China a central focus of his foreign policy. For this they have sacrificed other policy goals and regions.India is fighting terror, authoritarian regime in the neighbourhood, and has to up its cyber, artificial intelligence, quantum technology and undersea capabilities.India is fighting to stop forced debt traps, forced droughts, fighting terror and standing with the world for justice. If India is not in AUKUS then who? In a surprise announcement this Week American President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris J...