Ex-PM Keating slams Morrison's AUKUS partnership

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16 Sep 2021, 6:00 pm

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Former PM Paul Keating slams AUKUS partnership, questions what chance the US would 'have in a full blown war against China'

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has issued a fiery statement in response to the AUKUS partnership, questioning what chance the US would have in "a full blown war against China" if it " could not beat a bunch of Taliban rebels with AK47 rifles in pickup tracks".

Zoe Zaczek
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The 77-year-old ex-Labor leader issued a statement on Thursday after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the agreement, named AUKUS, alongside UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden.

The first initiative of AUKUS will be collaboration on future nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy.

“The announced agreement … will amount to a lock-in of Australian military equipment and thereby forces, with those of the US with only one objective: the ability to act collectively in any military engagement by the US against China,” Mr Keating said.


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