Against a backdrop of growing tensions between Australia and China in the Pacific.
It is a decision with serious consequences that the Australian government made on September 15, 2021. By breaking the contract for the supply of 12 French submarines, worth 56 billion euros, for the benefit of a partnership Strategic with the United States and Great Britain, Australia opened an unprecedented political-financial sequence.
The
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contract of the century
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Everything had started so well, relations between Canberra and Paris were in good shape.
The two countries had signed in 2016 a gigantic contract, very quickly nicknamed "contract of the century" by its magnitude.
This agreement then committed the two States to a joint program of around fifty years with a first launch in 2030.
The fool's game
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If France denies having been informed of any tensions around the "contract of the century", the events nevertheless accelerated during the last G7.
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