Foreign officials and British defenses held talks with their Australian colleagues in Sydney on Friday, with a focus on advancing the security pact involving nuclear-powered submarines and sharing records of the growth of China's growing.
U.K. Elizabeth Truss Secretary and Secretary of State for Ben Wallace defense met with the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne and Defense Minister Peter Dutton for the first time since Canberra signed a contract in September.
Under what is called aucus partnership, which includes a variety of new security agreements, Australia will be able to build and operate a nuclear-powered submarine for the first time with the help of British and US agreements immediately encourage China and its neighbors to warn a race that increases in the region.
"Aucus represents a great opportunity for us, not only in relation to the acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines but also, correctly, as Marise shows, other abilities that will hinder the actions of aggression," Dutton told reporters in Sydney.
For the United Kingdom and America aucus agreement is the opportunity to grow their presence at Indo-Pacific while Australia strengthens its relationship with old allies when wrestling with increasing aggression from some exports.
In an interview with Australia published before the conversation, Truss said the security pact was "a fantastic agreement to continue" and his intention was to encourage closer industrial collaboration.
"It's also about the collaboration of technology that is much closer because this is where many battles for the future will be fought for," he told the newspaper. "It will not only be fought in traditional defense. It will be in the cyber room, the use of quantum technology, and artificial intelligence. This is the area where we want the aukus to go very deeply," he added.
Local media has suggested a plan to spread British nuclear submarines to Australia can be announced after talks on Friday. When asked, Wallace UK. said it was still "early days." "We will take him a step by step," he said.
"Of course Australia is a walnut in a coal mine when it comes to China's influence operation in democratic politics," Medcalf said. "The establishment of British security pays attention to the long term," he added.
