AUKUS and ‘the International Rules-based Order’ at the IAEA: Another Entirely Australian Own Goal to China

Abstract

In the year since the United States, United Kingdom, and Australian governments announced the formation of AUKUS, a new alliance whose centrepiece is to be the supply of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, a robust critique of the nuclear weapons expansion has emerged in Australia, China, and the International Atomic Energy Association among others.