Aukus expands: China is dissatisfied with the arms race and the "hegemony" of the United States

These countries intend to develop the program using submarines, protical systems, drones, artificial intelligence and cosmic observation, to restrain the Chinese threat. This was reported on December 3 by Global Times. The material states that the expansion of the Aukus Alliance is triggered by the "Chinese threat" and can lead to arms race in the Indo-Pacific. At the same time, Chinese experts claim that Americans use this threat as a reason "to build hegemony.

" According to Voice of America journalists, on December 1, at a meeting of the US, Australian and UK ministers in Silicon Valley, the head of the departments resolved global security in the region. In particular, it was about increasing the number of submarines that will be equipped with US nuclear technologies.

In addition to the atomic submarines, which were discussed in the original AUKUS agreement, the new agreement provides for a series of military exercises using underwater and overwhelming naval drones and expanding the possibilities of three countries to exchange intelligence. Three countries will also create new radar stations to strengthen their capabilities to identify and track objects in deep space.

Commenting on the initiative of the Western countries, the military expert Wei Dunsyui noted that the purpose of such cooperation is to increase military power and "to create a military group on the principle of hegemony under the pretext of Chinese threat to take provocative actions. " "These Aukus projects can not only lead to dangerous arms in the region, but also become a bad example for the whole world," Chinese experts summed up.