Submarine crisis: a meeting between French and English defense ministers canceled

A meeting scheduled this week in London between French Minister of the Armies Florence Parly and her British counterpart Ben Wallace has been canceled at the request of Paris, AFP learned on Sunday from a source at the French ministry.

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The cancellation comes in the midst of the crisis between the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, which announced Wednesday a strategic partnership to counter China, "AUKUS" (initials of the three partner countries, Editor's note), including the supply US nuclear-powered submarines in Canberra, which effectively kicked the French out of the game.

Peter Ricketts, a former British national security adviser, confirmed to the Guardian that the meeting had been