'Only reason' for AUKUS alliance is to 'push back against China'

The AUKUS alliance shows a pivot by the United Kingdom and United States towards the Indo-Pacific area and is sending a message to China with the trilateral partnership, according to ASPI Executive Director Peter Jennings.

“The key message is everything Beijing has done in the last half decade has been counterproductive to its longer-term interests,” he told Sky News Australia.

Mr Jennings said the “only reason” the AUKUS alliance existed was because of the needs to “push back” against China.

“The China which militarized the South China Sea, the China which took over Hong Kong when it didn’t need to – breaking a treaty with the UK, the China which is daily threatening Taiwan and Japan,” he said.

“China has forced the consequential democracies of the world to push back against this type of authoritarian behaviour.”

[slipmatjt]

God bless Australia, USA and the UK, that's coming from an English man. Let's be strong together, god bless

[leighbrown]

Way overdue but happy to here it don’t let let the greeny halfwits and doom sayers put the dampers on this good for AUS and all it’s people now we just have to boost domestic production of every thing imported from China and set the standard for the rest of the world to follow no one should ever have to bow down to a bully look out China you brought this on yourself

[kalidesu]

So can Australia finally get Nuclear power now?!

[mickden]

We are sitting ducks without the UK and the USA to help bolster our defences

[logan_e]

I read somewhere else today as an acronym AUKUS is allot better than the FUKUS china had planned for all of us!

[zakapholiac]

Us three will always be there for each other 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺

[wangsamaju]

please boycott china, stop trading with China, import and export, please.

[arthurtane]

The agreement gives Australia a) access to the fastest, most powerful and quietest submarines the world has ever know 2) allows our Navy to operate in Chinese waters without the PLA Navy being aware of our presence 3) gives us these submarines in a few years not a few decades 4) saves the taxpayers a huge bundle of money, even after we pay off the French and 5) gives Chairman Xi in Beijing something to think about!

[marcussewell]

Well done Australia we are stronger together..

[tkw]

So the US, UK and Australia want to jointly secure the sea lanes that are used to transport goods between China and the US, UK and Australia.

China: good, thanks.

[JeffBourke]

Outstanding news for Australian defence

[grumpy_]

Excellent, but Joe needs too get his shit together.

[Will-rsze]

The history tells us that everyone or every country wants to be on the TOP😇 why NOT EU + Russia + China join together to defeat America hegemony first, then restart the game 😉

[willdsm]

From this alliance, can we assume that we will be getting British subs with US fire and control systems?

[robertthomson]

Us Brits should always support you Aussies.

[AkPixie]

What a surprise announcement that was!
I guess we’re family now?

[jnusslein]

Anglo Saxon should live in Asia as well as in Australia, Canada, America, New Zealand.
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇳🇿

[peterd]

The reason for the awkward name is that BRUSA and UKUSA are the names of the cooperation treaties between the UK and US so the A had to be at the beginning.

[teoengchin]

Yes, keep spending and spending and spending... the country who spends the most always wins the war

[Heisenheimer.]

Australia is amazing. All these years since the end of the british empire and they still kept the flag.