Loading ...China Calls AUKUS Sub Deal “Pure Deception” As It Means Australia Going Nuclear
Biden sought to stress: “These boats will not have any nuclear weapons of any kind on them.”
China has blasted the new AUKUS nuclear submarine deal announced by President Joe Biden in San Diego on Monday alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Biden sought to stress that the agreement to transfer nuclear submarine technology to Australia is not “a challenge to anybody” and that “These boats will not have any nuclear weapons of any kind of them,”
But Beijing disagrees, as on Tuesday the foreign ministry blasted the US and its allies for their “Cold War mentality” which puts the region on a “dangerous path” that will “only motivate an arms race”. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin additionally said that nuclear subs for Australia’s military will “damage the international nuclear nonproliferation regime, and harm regional stability and peace.”