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• #Golden scapple update#

The defense review said that “wherever the Chinese Communist Party’s actions and stated intent threaten the U.K.’s interests, we will take swift and robust action to protect them.” is also increasingly concerned about what the government calls “the epoch-defining challenge presented by the Chinese Communist Party’s increasingly concerning military, financial and diplomatic activity.” Australia will also buy up to five Virginia-class subs from the U.S. construction will take place in shipyards at Barrow-in-Furness in northwest England, with the first subs completed by the late 2030s. and Australia will build new nuclear-powered, conventionally armed subs from a British design, with U.S. President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego on Monday to confirm next steps for the military pact, known as AUKUS, struck by the three countries in 2021 amid mounting concern about China’s actions in the Pacific. “It’s important that we protect ourselves against those.” “The world has become more volatile, the threats to our security have increased,” Sunak told the BBC during a visit to the U.S. Some will also go towards a U.K.-U.S.-Australia deal to build nuclear-powered submarines. The extra money will be used, in part, to replenish Britain’s ammunition stocks, depleted from supplying Ukraine in its defense against Russia. Britain currently spends just over 2% of GDP on defense, and military chiefs want it to rise to 3%. would increase military spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product “in the longer term,” but didn’t set a date. foreign and defense policy, is less than military officials wanted.

#Golden scapple update#

The increase, part of a major update to U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged Monday to increase military funding by 5 billion pounds ($6 billion) over the next two years in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the “epoch-defining challenge” posed by China.