Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/15042145 (201009ZNOV21) Notable: AUKUS: Australia, US military ‘melded like never before’ - President Biden’s top adviser for Asia, Dr Kurt Campbell, MISSING MEDIA/FILES: Kurt_Campbell_Joe_Biden_s_top_adviser_on_Asia.jpg
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AUKUS: Australia, US military ‘melded like never before’: US adviser
ADAM CREIGHTON - NOVEMBER 20, 2021
President Biden’s top adviser for Asia, Dr Kurt Campbell, has said he expects the US and Australia military to become “melded” together in a way unimaginable twenty years ago, as the AUKUS security pact comes to fruition.
Dr Campbell, one of the architects of the three-nation agreement that also include the UK, said the deal was a response to unprecedented Chinese military build-up in naval ships, nuclear warheads and space capabilities that had profoundly worried nations in the Asia-Pacific region.
“We’re of view that some of this is destabilising, much of it is done in non-transparent manner, and behind the scenes many in Asia are worried about this substantial, dramatic set of military investments,” he said, speaking as part of a fire side chat hosted by the US Institute of Peace in Washington on Friday.
“And some of those steps have led other countries to respond, and AUKUS is one of those responses,” he added.
His remarks followed publication of a damning report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission earlier this week that found China’s “unprecedented” nuclear weapons build up had raised the risk of war with the US and provided the People’s Liberation Army with the confidence to invade Taiwan.
The analysis of the communist superpower’s growing economic and military clout, published on Wednesday in Washington, recommended the US drastically clamp down on commercial ties with China and take “urgent measures to strengthen the credibility ofPost too long. Click here to view the full text.