China has wasted no time in responding to the recently announced AUKUS nuclear subs deal
The communist nation has attacked the alliance between the UK, US and Australia which will see the three partner countries develop nuclear-powered submarines.
Beijing’s US embassy has told all three partner nations to “shake off their cold war mentality and ideological prejudice.”
The embassy added that the countries should not “build exclusionary blocs targeting or harming the interests of third parties.”
Experts are now expecting Australia will be next to cop a verbal blast from Beijing over AUKUS – adding that the acquisition of nuclear submarines should be seen as only one part of a much bigger security picture.
“Australia is over being bullied”
The AUKUS agreement, and Australia’s program to acquire nuclear submarines, sends “a very clear signal that Australia is past being bullied,” according to Charles Sturt University Professor Clive Hamilton.
Relations between China many Western Nations have recently intensified.
Talks between the communist nation and Australia have also been frozen amid growing tensions and trade sanctions between the two countries.
