US President Joe Biden watches as Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks virtually on national security in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept 15, 2021. - AFP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Australia’s newly unveiled defence pact with the United Kingdom and the United States is expected to heighten tensions in the Indo-Pacific, with Indonesia and other countries finding themselves caught in the middle of an arms race between Western allies and China.
Canberra will get US cruise missiles and a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of the new agreement, dubbed AUKUS, which has angered Beijing and worried nuclear non-proliferation activists and regional diplomats.
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