Washington correspondent
The new triple alliance was announced by surprise Wednesday at the White House by Joe Biden, surrounded by two video screens where the Australian and British prime ministers appeared. Its name, Aukus (Australia, United Kingdom United States), was unveiled by Australian Scott Morrison, who described
"a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. ". "The first major initiative of the Aukus will be to supply a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia," the Australian
Prime Minister immediately added, thus cavalierly ending the agreement already signed with France. to build twelve classic submersibles.
We intend to build these submarines in Adelaide, Australia, in close collaboration with the UK and the US. ”
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Boris Johnson then took the floor to congratulate himself on this construction program,
"one of the
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