The United States, United Kingdom, and Australia announced a new trilateral partnership — dubbed AUKUS — in September 2021. As described by the the leaders of the three countries, AUKUS seeks to “deepen diplomatic, security, and defense cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region,” and involves the sharing of significant technology by London and Washington with Canberra. This includes the partnership’s arguably flagship aspiration to provide the Royal Australian Navy with nuclear-propulsion submarines.
AUKUS adds to growing array of minilateral arrangements in Asia today and has drawn a variety of reactions from across the region, ranging from wary to enthusiastic. What are the regional sensitivities around AUKUS? What does AUKUS mean for Australia’s broader regional role? How will AUKUS contribute to regional debates on a security architecture? In this webinar, recorded on November 17, 2021 three experts from the region discuss these and other questions.
Featuring Shihoko Goto, Acting Director of the Asia Program and Deputy Director for Geoeconomics at the Wilson Center. in Washington, D.C.; Manjari Chatterjee Miller, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); Susannah Patton, a Research Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre in Sydney; and moderated by Ankit Panda, the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an editor-at-large with The Diplomat.