- What is it?: It is a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, announced in 2021 for the Indo-Pacific region.
- Objectives
- To transfer technology to build a fleet of at least eight nuclear-powered submarines armed with conventional weapons.
- The pact is also seen as a deterrence to China’s aggression in the Pacific region.
- The pact also includes cooperation on advanced cyber, artificial intelligence and autonomy, quantum technologies, undersea capabilities, hypersonic and counter-hypersonic, electronic warfare, innovation and information sharing.
- It complements several pre-existing similar arrangements for the region like Five Eyes intelligence cooperation initiative, ASEAN and the Quad.
