PM hails nuclear sub deal with stark warning of 'new era' for region

"We have entered, no doubt, a new era with new challenges for Australia and for our partners and friends and countries right across our region."Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison and US President Joe Biden at this morning's joint press conference.

The fleet will be built in Adelaide, with the new AUKUS partnership to determine the way forward in the next 18 months."Nuclear-powered have clear advantages. Greater endurance, they're faster, they have greater power, greater stealth, more carrying capacity," he said. "Next-generation nuclear-powered submarines will use reactors that do not need refuelling during the life of the boat," he said.

"We have increased our defence spending as a share of our economy to over two per cent ahead of time, and we will have to keep pressing forward," he said. "We need you. We needed you. And we will still need you and we will continue to enlist you in this great national effort to ensure the skills that have been developed are kept with this great national enterprise.""I'm particularly looking forward to engaging with US and UK counterparts around the cutting-edge technologies, not just the nuclear-powered submarine, but the other opportunities that are made available to us through the AUKUS arrangement," he said.

"The ANZUS alliance and other partnerships and agreements we believe suit our security interests and have served us very well. AUKUS takes that to a whole new level."Mr Morrison said Australia had engaged with China and other countries in the Indo-Pacific to discuss the new AUKUS alliance."There's an open invitation for to discuss other matters. That has always been there."Australia is open to discuss issues important to the Indo-Pacific.

Earlier, as he confirmed the partnership in a joint virtual media conference with Mr Biden and Mr Johnson, Mr Morrison said AUKUS was a response to an increasingly "complex" Indo-Pacific."To meet these challenges, to help deliver the security and stability our region needs, we must now take our partnership to a new level."Mr Morrison did not directly mention the Chinese government in his comments.

"The UK, Australia and the US will be joined even more closely together, reflecting the measure of trust between us, the depths of our friendship and the enduring strength of our shared values of freedom and democracy," he said.

ElizaEdNews I don’t like the idea of nuclear weapon too but it will be irresponsible for a gov’t to do nothing if the danger is clear and present. Not saying we are going into war but that’s what we need to do to safeguard ourselves.

ElizaEdNews Yep, how irresponsible of us to throw a spanner in their plans of taking over the neighborhood...

GenoveseMichael We do not have to see China in this threatening way. We could talk about the real problem climate change! Whitlam where are you?

ElizaEdNews Insane LNP Govt. We must not go to war with China! They are way ahead on renewable and sustainable industries. We should talk!

GenoveseMichael we dont want a new cold war. where are the australian journalists who are critical of this rubbish? oh right, he's locked up by the british and american governments in belmarsh prison

ElizaEdNews Oh it must be true because lying China says so!

GenoveseMichael If China is upset then it's a good deal.😜👍🏻

GenoveseMichael I don't think the French are too happy either.

ElizaEdNews yea, because if we have nuclear power submarines, the chinese will think twice about invading us or other countries..

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