AUKUS: How Not to Win Friends
HINDUSTAN TIMES
APLN member Rakesh Sood, former Indian Ambassador, argues that AUKUS shows that the time has come for India and France to set a new milestone for strengthening their strategic partnership.
Last week witnessed the aukward birth of a new security alliance — AUKUS — bringing together Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), coupled with a deal involving the US and the UK building eight nuclear attack submarines for Australia. The announcement was guaranteed to create waves in the Indo-Pacific, but the fallout of Australia cancelling the five-year-old deal with France for a dozen diesel-powered attack submarines created bigger waves across the Atlantic.
