President Joe Biden has agreed to sell three fast-attack nuclear submarines to Australia in a deal with the United Kingdom to combat the growing threat of China.
Biden announced the pact at the home of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in San Diego and in front of the 377-foot nuclear attack submarine the USS Missouri.
The AUKUS deal is about making sure the ‘Indo Pacific will remain free and open’, the president said in a clear message to Beijing as it ramps up its military presence around Taiwan.
He then told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: ‘The United States could not think of two better friends to stand with.
‘I am proud to be your shipmate,’ he added.
The move marks one of Biden’s most aggressive step towards China’s growing military, and is combined with the Pentagon requesting its biggest peacetime budget in history.
President Joe Biden has agreed to sell three fast-attack nuclear submarines to Australia in a deal with the United…
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