AUKUS is a security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, announced jointly by the leaders of the three countries. Its best-known part is an agreement to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a technology the United States had shared with only one country before, the United Kingdom. A second area of cooperation covers advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and hypersonic weapons. The pact is widely seen as a response to China's growing military power in the Indo-Pacific region, which Beijing has criticized. It also caused a diplomatic row with France, because Australia canceled an earlier contract for French diesel-electric submarines. The three governments have said it will strengthen deterrence and defense industry cooperation.
Before and after
- 14 July 2021Operation Allies Refuge
- 14 August 20212021 Haiti earthquake
- 15 August 2021Fall of Kabul
- from 15 August 2021 to 30 August 20212021 Kabul Airlift
- 15 September 2021Founding of AUKUS
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- from 19 September 2021 to 13 December 20212021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption
- 26 September 20212021 German federal election
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