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PacNet 39 PACIFIC FORUM · HONOLULU, HI May 26, 2023

27 May 2023

of the East and South China seas, areas through which foreign vessels of all kinds have rights to move under Directly deterring from beneath the sea the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which the PRC ratified in 1996. [...] Defining deterrence as the “building of combat credible forces across all domains and across the full In this worsening geopolitical environment Australia, spectrum of conflict to deter aggression,” Karlin also the United Kingdom and the United States have noted that AUKUS is about more than just pillars I created the AUKUS submarine and technology- and II, but also includes a focus on undersea sh. [...] INDOPACOM and the Royal Navy to regularly Map: AUKUS AUKUS thus provides all three countries with a wider position forces east of the Strait of Malacca and west distributed force posture closer to likely areas of of the International Date Line (IDL)—a helpful operations, vis-à-vis the PLAN in the Western Pacific. [...] According to the Australian critical to Chinese maritime communication lines Department of Defence, this will be composed of “a across the Pacific and to the Middle East and East rotational presence…of one UK and up to four US, Africa. [...] Then there are the agreements made in March campaign, allowing the three allies to synchronize of this year, such as the two-part pathway that joint capabilities through increased exercises and allows for a second direct form of undersea further cementing persistent forces in between the deterrence: that of providing those platforms Strait of Malacca and the IDL.

Authors

Dana Almodova

Pages
3
Published in
United States of America