{"id":558,"date":"2021-09-18T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=558"},"modified":"2021-09-18T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T20:31:11","slug":"us-uk-australian-defense-pact-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/blog\/politics\/558\/","title":{"rendered":"US-UK-Australian defense pact against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a collective defense pact, specifically to share &#8220;advanced defense technologies to counter China\u2019s military power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The collective agreement covers cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum and cyber technology, and submarine capabilities, and focuses on the Indo-Pacific region at the heart of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>As a first step, the pact is intended to help Australia build a nuclear-powered submarine for the first time to help counter Chinese nuclear-powered vessels in the region, while Australia has been committed to its nuclear commitments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The three countries&#8217; joint statement says the Indo-Pacific region could be the site of potential conflicts, including over unresolved territorial disputes, terrorist threats, organized crime and cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the new alliance, the Chinese embassy in Washington said &#8220;countries must abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a collective defense pact, specifically to share &#8220;advanced defense technologies to counter China\u2019s military power.&#8221; The collective agreement covers cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum and cyber technology, and submarine capabilities, and focuses on the Indo-Pacific region at the heart of Australia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":114,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}