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'There is outrage': former PM Malcolm Turnbull criticises Morrison's handling of subs deal
Malcolm Turnbull excoriates Scott Morrison over ‘appalling episode’ with French submarine deal
PM also revealed he plans to go to Glasgow for Cop26, while Scott Morrison is yet to commit
Oct. 2 - Malcolm Turnbull has revealed he has spoken to French president Emmanuel Macron in the wake of the nuclear submarines controversy – something Scott Morrison has not managed to do.Turnbull also confirmed he is planning to go to Glasgow for Cop26, while the prime minister is yet to make up his mind.
The revelations came during an hour-long National Press Club address and question and answer session with journalists on Wednesday, where Turnbull launched a withering critique of his successor Scott Morrison on multiple fronts.
The former prime minister is reserving his rights to endorse climate-focused independents at the next federal election, and won’t say if he intends to vote Liberal even though he remains a member of the party.
He reserved his strongest criticism for Morrison’s handling of the Aukus agreement with the United States and the United Kingdom. The deal has plunged Australia into the diplomatic deep freeze in Paris, because the government cancelled a $90bn contract with a French defence contractor.
While Macron has not spoken to Morrison since the Australian prime minister canned the French contract, Turnbull revealed he had spoken to his “friend” Macron since the Aukus pact was unveiled.
Turnbull did not go into his conversation with the French president, but praised him as “one of the great leaders of our times” and “an enormously important figure in global politics and particularly in Europe”... more
Malcolm Turnbull excoriates Scott Morrison over ‘appalling episode’ with French submarine deal
PM also revealed he plans to go to Glasgow for Cop26, while Scott Morrison is yet to commit
Oct. 2 - Malcolm Turnbull has revealed he has spoken to French president Emmanuel Macron in the wake of the nuclear submarines controversy – something Scott Morrison has not managed to do.Turnbull also confirmed he is planning to go to Glasgow for Cop26, while the prime minister is yet to make up his mind.
The revelations came during an hour-long National Press Club address and question and answer session with journalists on Wednesday, where Turnbull launched a withering critique of his successor Scott Morrison on multiple fronts.
The former prime minister is reserving his rights to endorse climate-focused independents at the next federal election, and won’t say if he intends to vote Liberal even though he remains a member of the party.
He reserved his strongest criticism for Morrison’s handling of the Aukus agreement with the United States and the United Kingdom. The deal has plunged Australia into the diplomatic deep freeze in Paris, because the government cancelled a $90bn contract with a French defence contractor.
While Macron has not spoken to Morrison since the Australian prime minister canned the French contract, Turnbull revealed he had spoken to his “friend” Macron since the Aukus pact was unveiled.
Turnbull did not go into his conversation with the French president, but praised him as “one of the great leaders of our times” and “an enormously important figure in global politics and particularly in Europe”... more
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Former prime minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull has hit out at the decision to buy nuclear submarines from the French
Australia will not be able to maintain nuclear subs bought from US, says ex-PM
Malcolm Turnbull criticised the country’s government over its U-turn on a deal to buy conventionally powered submarines from France.
Sep. 29 - The former Australian prime minister who signed the now-cancelled French submarine deal has questioned whether Australia could safely maintain a fleet powered by US nuclear technology.
Malcolm Turnbull made the £48 billion deal in 2016 with French majority state-owned Naval Group to build 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who replaced Turnbull in a power struggle within Australia’s conservative government in 2018, cancelled the deal this month as part of an alliance with the United States and Britain that will deliver an Australian fleet of at least eight nuclear-powered submarines.
Morrison explained that the “game changer” was that next-generation nuclear-powered submarines will use reactors that do not need refuelling during the 35-year life of the boat.
Turnbull told the National Press Club on Wednesday that he had been advised by the Australia’s Defence Department as recently as 2018 that an Australian nuclear-powered fleet was not an option without local nuclear facilities.
Morrison’s advice that Australia could become the first country to operate a nuclear-powered fleet without a civil nuclear industry or nuclear expertise was “very different” to Defence Department advice three years ago, Turnbull said... more
Australia will not be able to maintain nuclear subs bought from US, says ex-PM
Malcolm Turnbull criticised the country’s government over its U-turn on a deal to buy conventionally powered submarines from France.
Sep. 29 - The former Australian prime minister who signed the now-cancelled French submarine deal has questioned whether Australia could safely maintain a fleet powered by US nuclear technology.
Malcolm Turnbull made the £48 billion deal in 2016 with French majority state-owned Naval Group to build 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who replaced Turnbull in a power struggle within Australia’s conservative government in 2018, cancelled the deal this month as part of an alliance with the United States and Britain that will deliver an Australian fleet of at least eight nuclear-powered submarines.
Morrison explained that the “game changer” was that next-generation nuclear-powered submarines will use reactors that do not need refuelling during the 35-year life of the boat.
Turnbull told the National Press Club on Wednesday that he had been advised by the Australia’s Defence Department as recently as 2018 that an Australian nuclear-powered fleet was not an option without local nuclear facilities.
Morrison’s advice that Australia could become the first country to operate a nuclear-powered fleet without a civil nuclear industry or nuclear expertise was “very different” to Defence Department advice three years ago, Turnbull said... more
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull AC (born 24 October 1954) is a former Australian politician who was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He served twice as Leader of the Liberal Party, from 2008 to 2009 when he was Leader of the Opposition, and from 2015 to 2018 when he was Prime Minister. He was the MP for Wentworth in the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2018.
Turnbull graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, before attending Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law. For more than two decades, he worked as a journalist, lawyer, merchant banker, and venture capitalist. He served as Chair of the Australian Republican Movement from 1993 to 2000, and was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful "Yes" campaign in the 1999 republic referendum. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Wentworth in New South Wales at the 2004 election, and was Minister for the Environment and Water under John Howard from January 2007 until December 2007.
Turnbull graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, before attending Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law. For more than two decades, he worked as a journalist, lawyer, merchant banker, and venture capitalist. He served as Chair of the Australian Republican Movement from 1993 to 2000, and was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful "Yes" campaign in the 1999 republic referendum. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Wentworth in New South Wales at the 2004 election, and was Minister for the Environment and Water under John Howard from January 2007 until December 2007.
Blinken to visit France amid submarine deal tension
Oct. 2 - Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit France next week amid tensions surrounding the United States’ submarine deal with the United Kingdom and Australia.
Blinken will travel to Paris on Oct. 4 to chair the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Ministerial Council Meeting, assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried said in a news conference.
While there, Blinken will meet with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to discuss “cooperation on a range of issues,” Donfried said.
Donfried further said that the Blinken will discuss strengthening ties with France and the European Union ahead of France assuming the presidency of the European Council next year.
France reacted angrily last month when the U.S. announced the submarine deal, dubbed the AUKUS, which cancelled a separate multi-billion-dollar submarine deal that France forged with Australia in 2016.
Under the AUKUS, the U.S. and U.K. would help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines and cooperate on areas such as artificial intelligence and undersea capabilities.
Blinken and Le Drian have already met since the cancelled deal. Le Drian is expected to hold talks with Blinken on Oct. 5, Reuters reported.
President Biden also spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the deal, during which the leaders agreed that the situation “would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners.”
In response, France cancelled a planned gala in Washington, D.C. and recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia.
French Ambassador to the U.S. Philippe Etienne said Thursday that he is back in the U.S. with a “clear mandate, and a “goal to rebuild trust in our relationship—a process that will involve a great deal of work.”
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Oct. 2 - Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit France next week amid tensions surrounding the United States’ submarine deal with the United Kingdom and Australia.
Blinken will travel to Paris on Oct. 4 to chair the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Ministerial Council Meeting, assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried said in a news conference.
While there, Blinken will meet with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to discuss “cooperation on a range of issues,” Donfried said.
Donfried further said that the Blinken will discuss strengthening ties with France and the European Union ahead of France assuming the presidency of the European Council next year.
France reacted angrily last month when the U.S. announced the submarine deal, dubbed the AUKUS, which cancelled a separate multi-billion-dollar submarine deal that France forged with Australia in 2016.
Under the AUKUS, the U.S. and U.K. would help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines and cooperate on areas such as artificial intelligence and undersea capabilities.
Blinken and Le Drian have already met since the cancelled deal. Le Drian is expected to hold talks with Blinken on Oct. 5, Reuters reported.
President Biden also spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the deal, during which the leaders agreed that the situation “would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to France and our European partners.”
In response, France cancelled a planned gala in Washington, D.C. and recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia.
French Ambassador to the U.S. Philippe Etienne said Thursday that he is back in the U.S. with a “clear mandate, and a “goal to rebuild trust in our relationship—a process that will involve a great deal of work.”
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Russia withdraws offer to freeze nuclear warhead production
Oct. 2 -Ryabkov aired the withdrawal of that proposal following a meeting with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman for what both sides described as “intensive and substantive” arms control talks. He complained about the U.S. and United Kingdom's decision to partner with Australia on a submarine deal widely perceived as directed at China, and both Russian and American officials underscored that the negotiations are unlikely to produce a deal anytime soon.
“Arms control dialogues take a very long time,” Sherman said Friday. “The dialogue has a value in and of itself because it unveils norms that we both believe in and want to establish as the [two nations with the] largest number of nuclear weapons, so it's very good in and of itself.”
The Ryabkov-Sherman meeting comes months after President Joe Biden’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when the two leaders echoed Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s affirmation that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” That joint statement drew criticism from Marshall Billingslea, former President Donald Trump’s point man for arms control, who observed that Putin “believes that a nuclear war CAN be fought & won” and faulted Biden for making a joint statement while “knowing Putin to be lying.”
Russia has adopted a military doctrine that contemplates the use of nuclear weapons to win a conflict in Eastern Europe before U.S. forces can intervene, according to Western officials, spurring at least one NATO ally to warn publicly that Russian might launch a nuclear “blitzkrieg” against one of its neighbors. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Reagan-Gorbachev treaty that banned the development of intermediate-range land-based ballistic missiles after Republicans and Democrats, as well as the rest of NATO, assessed that Putin has developed and deployed such systems in defiance of the treaty.
Putin acknowledged in December that an arms race "has already begun,” but Ryabkov argued a more one-sided case on Friday, when he attributed any arms control tensions to an American quest “for decisive unilateral advantages at the expense of Russia's security.”
He broadened his complaints about NATO member-state decisions to include U.S. and British efforts to upgrade their defenses against Chinese threats.
“We are concerned especially by the statements produced earlier in the year in London on future prospects for expansion of its nuclear capabilities,” Ryabkov said, referring to a British plan to increase its nuclear stockpile in response to “China’s military modernization and growing international assertiveness within the Indo-Pacific region.”
And he maintained that the recent U.S. decision to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia is "a great challenge to the international nonproliferation regime” despite Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s stipulation that the deal will cover nuclear power for the submarines but no nuclear weapons.
U.S. officials have expressed doubt about whether they’ll be able to reach another arms control deal with Russia, but Sherman and Ryabkov separately touted the launch of two working groups on arms control as a positive step.
“We all hope that we head to achieving some objectives about moving forward,” she said. source from
Oct. 2 -Ryabkov aired the withdrawal of that proposal following a meeting with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman for what both sides described as “intensive and substantive” arms control talks. He complained about the U.S. and United Kingdom's decision to partner with Australia on a submarine deal widely perceived as directed at China, and both Russian and American officials underscored that the negotiations are unlikely to produce a deal anytime soon.
“Arms control dialogues take a very long time,” Sherman said Friday. “The dialogue has a value in and of itself because it unveils norms that we both believe in and want to establish as the [two nations with the] largest number of nuclear weapons, so it's very good in and of itself.”
The Ryabkov-Sherman meeting comes months after President Joe Biden’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when the two leaders echoed Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s affirmation that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” That joint statement drew criticism from Marshall Billingslea, former President Donald Trump’s point man for arms control, who observed that Putin “believes that a nuclear war CAN be fought & won” and faulted Biden for making a joint statement while “knowing Putin to be lying.”
Russia has adopted a military doctrine that contemplates the use of nuclear weapons to win a conflict in Eastern Europe before U.S. forces can intervene, according to Western officials, spurring at least one NATO ally to warn publicly that Russian might launch a nuclear “blitzkrieg” against one of its neighbors. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Reagan-Gorbachev treaty that banned the development of intermediate-range land-based ballistic missiles after Republicans and Democrats, as well as the rest of NATO, assessed that Putin has developed and deployed such systems in defiance of the treaty.
Putin acknowledged in December that an arms race "has already begun,” but Ryabkov argued a more one-sided case on Friday, when he attributed any arms control tensions to an American quest “for decisive unilateral advantages at the expense of Russia's security.”
He broadened his complaints about NATO member-state decisions to include U.S. and British efforts to upgrade their defenses against Chinese threats.
“We are concerned especially by the statements produced earlier in the year in London on future prospects for expansion of its nuclear capabilities,” Ryabkov said, referring to a British plan to increase its nuclear stockpile in response to “China’s military modernization and growing international assertiveness within the Indo-Pacific region.”
And he maintained that the recent U.S. decision to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia is "a great challenge to the international nonproliferation regime” despite Biden and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s stipulation that the deal will cover nuclear power for the submarines but no nuclear weapons.
U.S. officials have expressed doubt about whether they’ll be able to reach another arms control deal with Russia, but Sherman and Ryabkov separately touted the launch of two working groups on arms control as a positive step.
“We all hope that we head to achieving some objectives about moving forward,” she said. source from
