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Cooperation with France in the Indo-Pacific is an indispensable step for the AUKUS countries to achieve their objectives, given that France has demonstrated its commitment to the region. Undoubtedly, ...

The United States has launched a review of the AUKUS pact—a trilateral security arrangement between Australia, the United ...

After the Biden administration’s failure to include France in the national security pact with the United Kingdom and Australia, French officials canceled a gala at their Washington embassy.

And French officials – angered that France now stands to lose the equivalent of $65 billion US dollars in an existing deal to provide Australia with conventional submarines – say the US showed ...

President Biden on Wednesday spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and admitted to botching the rollout of a new security pact with the UK and Australia by snubbing France in the process.

France got a bitter lesson in the realities of geopolitics last week when the United States and Australia, with the United Kingdom tagging along, signed the AUKUS security agreement.

Don’t Underestimate the AUKUS Rift With France. Paris doesn’t speak for Europe, but it can disrupt trans-Atlantic ties. By Heather A. Conley, the former president of the German Marshall Fund, ...

According to France's defence ministry, the Naval Group had already completed $1.1 billion in work on the submarines, which was covered by payments already made by Australia.

In the AUKUS alliance, the “K” does not stand for Korea. The risk for the United States is that its enemies will use this argument of an “Anglo-club only” to weaken America’s other ...

To be sure, the loss of contracts valued at more than $60 billion after cost overruns is a staggering blow to France, whose total defense budget was just above $50 billion in 2020.

France and the US have made efforts to end a row which started last week with the announcement of a defence pact between the US, UK and Australia. The Aukus pact cost France a submarine contract ...