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Australia, the US and UK to announce landmark new defence pact

Sources confirmed the US would help Australia develop a nuclear submarine capability, which could result in Australia dumping its $90 billion submarine deal with France.
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Ministers granted border exemptions to attend urgent meeting in Canberra
By Anthony Galloway and Rob Harris
September 15, 2021 — 8.52pm


Several federal cabinet ministers were called to a top-secret meeting in Canberra on Wednesday ahead of a major international development expected out of the United States on Thursday morning.
Sources familiar with the development said some members of cabinet were granted border exemptions to urgently fly to Canberra for the hastily arranged meeting, which sources say will have international significance.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Minister Marise Payne, who are in Washington for a series of meetings over the next two days, were said to have joined the meeting via a secure connection.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and three other senior members of his frontbench were also given the rare opportunity to be briefed on the highly sensitive matter.
Several Coalition MPs told this masthead they had been ordered at short-notice to dial into a rare conference call for 9.30am on Thursday, but none were aware of the reason for the briefing.

Australian and foreign diplomats will also be briefed on the development on Thursday.
The announcement, also significant to the United States and British governments, will be made at 7am Australian time.
The White House said US President Joe Biden would deliver “brief remarks about a national security initiative”.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will travel to Washington next week for a meeting of the Quad alliance which includes the US, India Japan and Australia. Mr Morrison will have his first in-person one-on-one meeting with Mr Biden during the trip.
Mr Dutton and Senator Payne are to meet face-to-face with their US counterparts Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin

Measures to counter China’s trade strikes and other “grey zone” attacks, as well as an Australian request to be granted greater access to US missile technology, will be on the agenda in the meetings.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan and the potential for future terrorism threats will also be discussed.
 
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Let me guess.... Biden has said that he's going to announce more vax stuff. I'm assuming he's going to restrict travel from Australia and the UK. That only partly makes sense because there are others -- like all of the EU -- that he could easily restrict also. Plus, this wouldn't need to be top secret with secure connections to take place. Otherwise, I'm at a loss.
 
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Canberra is the "Washington DC" of Australia. They had to be given special permission to travel across state lines due to travel restrictions. They had to appear in person. I'm slowly taking back my previous statement about travel. Restricting vaxxed only travel to the US from those areas would be a big deal. I don't know if it would be that big.
 
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After reading the only two articles I could find out of Australia, I learned that the defense minister was involved. If my first assumption was correct, there would be no reason for the defense minister to get into it.
 
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BREAKING: US to announce new hi tech intel-sharing agreement with Australia and UK Looks like 5 Eyes is down to 3. Sorry Justin.

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United States has announced a new "trilateral security" partnership will be formed with Australia and the United Kingdom, to be announced formally by
@JoeBiden
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@ScottMorrisonMP
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@BorisJohnson
. It will work on "advanced defence capabilities" in the Indo-Pacific

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If it has something to do with Indo-Pacific why is the UK involved? There's more to this than the public statement.... The real reason -- which was top secret -- is still under wraps.
 
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Why the hell the Brits OR the Aussies would trust Biden on any agreement after the Afghanistan disaster is beyond reason.
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They are grasping at straws. Neither of them have a military capable of slowing China at all. We are the only kid on the block that could militarily counter the Chinese. Their fragile hope is that the US would stand by its treaties.
 
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I think it has more to do with the British Crown attempting to keep its control and influence over the USA.

'Australian Missile Crisis' incoming?
 
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Fallout from the revelation that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is a damn dirty Communist traitor?

Millet would have been privy to a certain amount of Aussie Defence info. I can see where their government and military might be concerned about Milley's treachery.
 
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mecoastie said:
They are grasping at straws. Neither of them have a military capable of slowing China at all. We are the only kid on the block that could militarily counter the Chinese. Their fragile hope is that the US would stand by its treaties.
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Sun Tzu said that no fortress is so strong, that it cannot be conquered with Gold. And, so many in our government and military have already been bought.

We won't do anything to slow China.
 
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Sounds like this might be what it is...

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Biden announces joint deal with U.K. and Australia to counter China

The new allies' agreement will include cooperation on nuclear-powered subs, AI and cutting-edge defense tech.
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Biden to announce joint deal with U.K. and Australia on advanced defense-tech sharing
One source said there is a nuclear-defense infrastructure to the three-way pact known as AUUKUS.

By ALEXANDER WARD and PAUL MCLEARY
09/15/2021 08:55 AM EDT
Updated: 09/15/2021 12:04 PM EDT

President Joe Biden will announce a new working group with Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies in a thinly veiled bid to counter China, a White House official and a congressional staffer told POLITICO.

The trio, which will be known by the acronym AUUKUS, will make it easier for the three countries to share information and know-how in key technological areas like artificial intelligence, cyber, underwater systems and long-range strike capabilities.

One of the people said there will be a nuclear element to the pact in which the U.S. and U.K. share their knowledge of how to maintain nuclear-defense infrastructure.

There’s nothing explicitly mentioning China in the three-way deal, the people said, but both noted that the subtext of the announcement is that this is another move by Western allies to push back on China’s rise in the military and technology arenas.

“This is a surprising and extremely welcome sign of the Biden administration’s willingness to empower close allies like Australia through the provision of highly advanced defense technology assistance — something that Washington has rarely been willing to do,” said Ashley Townsend, director of foreign policy and defense programming at the United States Center in Sydney. “It suggests a new and more strategic approach to working collectively with allies on Indo-Pacific defence priorities.”

Australia’s Financial Review newspaper reported Canberra will abandon a $90 billion submarine deal with France and will now acquire an American-made nuclear-powered submarine. The French deal had long been in trouble, with the Naval Group, the French shipbuilder tasked with constructing the 12 submarines, and the Australian government sparring over design changes and cost increases.

A new class of nuclear-powered submarines would give Washington and its allies in the Pacific a powerful new tool to attempt to contain Chinese military expansion, and would follow on the current deployment of a British aircraft carrier to the region, and recent transits by French and German warships to the South China Sea.

The U.S. and U.K. have long partnered on their nuclear-powered submarine programs, sharing technology across their various classes of ships. Bringing Australia into the fold would would a major step in increasing the ability of the three countries to operate together undersea across the Pacific, as well as adding a powerful allied punch in the region that is currently lacking.

Beijing has a growing missile arsenal at its disposal and its forces are increasingly aggressive, sailing naval ships near Japanese and American waters in recent days. It’s part of China’s effort to assert its primacy in the Indo-Pacific and lay claim to disputed territories. Chinese officials say territory that falls within the country’s “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea belongs to Beijing.

In response, the U.S. continues to build partnerships with other nations that serve as a bulwark against China. One such group is known as “the Quad” and has the U.S., Japan, Australia and India as members. Formed in its current iteration in 2017, the four-nation team never says that its economic, technological and military cooperation is about thwarting Beijing’s aims, but analysts say the Quad wouldn’t be as robust today if it weren’t for China’s continued aggressions.

On Sept. 24, all four Quad-nation heads will meet at the White House for the first-ever in-person, leader-level gathering of the group.

A trade war between China and Australia has also worsened relations between the countries. The dispute, which began in April 2020 after Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked for an inquiry into the origins of Covid-19, has cost the two nations roughly $4 billion. Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s treasurer, this month accused Beijing of trying to exert “political pressure” with penalties on Australian products.

And China-India relations have also been tense, with recent fatal standoffs at their long-disputed border high in the Himalayas.
 
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