Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called the newly announced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom “historic and important.” “Historic because it overturns decades of strategic caution and announces to the world that we take national security seriously,” he said in a statement on Twitter on Sept. 16. “Important because it acknowledges the scale of the strategic challenge from China and declares that Australia will play our part in meeting it,” he added. His comments were in stark contrast to those from another former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who said the agreement was a “dramatic loss” of sovereign capability for Australia. “Australia has had great difficulty in running a bunch of Australian-built conventional submarines—imagine the difficulty in moving to sophisticated nuclear submarines,” he said in a statement. “If the United States military with all its might could not beat a bunch of Taliban …
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