Britain will double its number of hunter-killer submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and Australia aimed at countering the growing threat presented by China in the Indo-Pacific region.
Leaders of the three allies set out details of the plan at a summit in California on Monday with Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, hailing the deal as “the most significant multilateral defence partnership in generations”. US President Joe Biden said the deal puts all three nations in the “strongest possible position”.
