{"id":267732,"date":"2025-11-07T01:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267732\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:17:07","slug":"australias-china-rhetoric-pales-before-americas-on-aukus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267732\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s China rhetoric pales before America&#8217;s on AUKUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the AUKUS pact was launched in 2021, none of the three leaders of Australia, the US and the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/09\/15\/remarks-by-president-biden-prime-minister-morrison-of-australia-and-prime-minister-johnson-of-the-united-kingdom-announcing-the-creation-of-aukus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned the word \u201cChina\u201d<\/a>. Instead, observers had to read between the lines about delivering security and stability to the Indo-Pacific to understand the true aim of the submarine agreement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Beijing, the meaning was considered clear: the AUKUS nations were exhibiting a \u201cCold War mentality and ideological prejudice\u201d, which would risk \u201cseriously undermin[ing] regional peace and stability and intensif[ying] the arms race\u201d, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-58564837\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the words<\/a> of Chinese officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the AUKUS pact was launched in 2021, none of the three leaders of Australia, the US and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,3402,63,512,3403,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-267732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-aukus","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-defence","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}