Aukus Security Partnership was launched in 2021 as a response from the U.S. And it’s allies to tackle china’s growing impact in the Indo pacific
Australian government is showing keen interest in Japan to join Aukus a trilateral security partnership between Australia, U.K., U.S. to help on defence technology, remarked the Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles in an recent interview.
While ruling out Tokyo’s participation in the centrepiece project for Aukus – delivering nuclear-powered submarines to Australia – Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles said Canberra wants to “work more closely with Japan” on technological developments, acknowledging that the Asian nation is a “place of innovation” and is “at the cutting edge of technology”.
“I think it is natural that we would be talking about a greater level of cooperation between the three countries – US, UK and Australia – and Japan, in terms of joint collaborations going forward,” he said in an interview in the Australian capital.
Aukus Security Partnership was launched in 2021 as a response from the U.S. And it’s allies to tackle china’s growing impact in the Indo pacific. Aukus follows two fold strategy one is of acquisition of nuclear war submarines and second is strengthening In the fields of Artificial intelligence and hypersonic missiles.Despite its interest on collaboration with Japan, Marles also mentioned that the Japanese involvement in the partnership is going to take some time as Aukus is “very much focused on working on new innovative technologies among the three countries.”
“As pillar two becomes more mature, which is going to take some years, I think there is an opportunity at that point to look at how we can cooperate with Japan in relation to that,” he said.
New Zealand and Canada have also shown considerable interest in the partnership to work on artificial intelligence and hypersonic missiles.
“Australia and Japan have never been more strategically aligned than we are now” said Marles.
