AUKUS ‘targets Russia, China’

MOSCOW: Russian Security Council secretary Nikolai Patrushev described the AUKUS alliance of Australia, the UK and the US as another military bloc directed against Russia and China, also emphasising that this “venture” puts the entire Asian security architecture at risk.

In an interview with Russia’s Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, Patrushev said: “A short while ago, a new military bloc was formed in the region, the US-UK-Australian AUKUS … Remarkably, the Americans squeezed their French partners out, grabbing a profitable deal for construction of nuclear submarines for Canberra.

“Apparently, Atlantic solidarity has a price.”