France-Australia: Moving Beyond AUKUS
The announcement of the trilateral security partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia (commonly referred as AUKUS) in September last year put an end to the $90 billion Attack class submarine program negotiated by France and Australia in 2016 and, in the process, began one of the most heated diplomatic crises between the two countries. Nine months after this announcement, the Lowy Institute's annual poll on foreign policy issues provides an opportunity to take stock of the impact of this diplomatic crisis on the...