AUKUS
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- Organization.name
- AUKUS
- Organization.image
- File:AUKUS logo.png
- Organization.image_size
- 120px
- Organization.map
- AUKUS signatories map.svg
- Organization.map_alt
- A world map with Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States coloured in green; all remaining countries are in grey
- Organization.map_size
- 300px
- Organization.map_caption
- Member states shown in dark green
- Organization.abbreviation
- AUKUS
- Organization.type
- Military technology partnership
- Organization.purpose
- Collective security
- Organization.region
- Indo-Pacific
- Organization.full_name
- Trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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Encyclopedic overview
31 sectionsContents
- Background
- Naval Group–Australia strategic partnership agreement
- Australia–UK–US negotiations
- Features
- Pillar 1 – Nuclear-powered submarines
- Pillar 2 – Advanced Capabilities
- Undersea Capabilities
- Quantum Technologies
- Advanced Cyber
- Hypersonic and Counter-Hypersonic Capabilities
- Other Pillar 2 activities
- Expansion
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Others
- Nuclear proliferation concerns
- Comments and responses from participating countries
- Australia
- United Kingdom
- United States
- International responses
- Japan
- France
- China
- Other countries
- European Union
- Summits
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
AUKUS ( ), also styled as Aukus, is a trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States intended to "promote a free and open Indo-Pacific that is secure and stable." Initially announced on 15 September 2021, the partnership involves two lines of effort referred to as pillars. Pillar 1 focuses on Australia acquiring nuclear-powered attack submarines and the rotational basing of US and UK nuclear-powered attack submarines in Australia. Pillar 2 entails the collaborative development of advanced capabilities in six technological areas: undersea capabilities, quantum technologies, artificial intelligence and autonomy, advanced cyber, hypersonic and counter-hypersonic capabilities, and electronic warfare; and in two broader functional areas: innovation and information sharing.
AUKUS is widely seen as a response to the perception among its members that the People's Republic of China poses a threat to the Indo-Pacific region. The Chinese government said, when the partnership was announced, that it risked "severely damaging regional peace" and had a "cold-war mentality".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AUKUS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.