China’s mission to the United Nations has blasted the AUKUS announcement as “blatant act” that “hurts peace and stability in the region”.
Just hours after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined US President Joe Biden and British PM Rishi Sunak on a US battleship in San Diego on Tuesday morning (AEDT) to confirm Australia will gain a fleet of eight nuclear-powered submarines within the next three decades under a fast-tracked plan that will cost up to $368 billion, the diplomatic mission repeated Beijing’s longstanding claims that AUKUS violates the objects of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
