{"id":68629,"date":"2021-11-17T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=68629"},"modified":"2021-11-17T05:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:57:13","slug":"morrison-says-aukus-will-strengthen-cooperation-on-critical-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/morrison-says-aukus-will-strengthen-cooperation-on-critical-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison says AUKUS will strengthen cooperation on critical technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australia\u2019s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used a keynote address at ASPI\u2019s Sydney Dialogue<\/a> to add important detail to what\u2019s known about Australia\u2019s AUKUS agreement with the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n

In his speech delivered online today, the prime minister makes it clear that AUKUS is intended to enable the three allies to develop and share advanced technology to give them an edge in an uncertain future.<\/p>\n

\u2018AUKUS is a broad and adaptable partnership that will drive our technology and capability cooperation to meet the challenges of the 21st century in the Indo-Pacific region,\u2019 he says.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our trilateral efforts in AUKUS will enhance our joint capabilities and interoperability, with an initial focus on cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies and additional undersea capabilities.\u2019<\/p>\n

Morrison says nations at the leading edge of technology have greater economic, political and military power and greater capacity to influence the norms and values that will shape technological development in the years to come. Nowhere is this more powerfully illustrated than in the Indo-Pacific region, which Morrison says is the world\u2019s strategic centre of gravity.<\/p>\n

The agreement is about much more than nuclear submarines, Morrison says. \u2018AUKUS will see Australia, the United Kingdom and the US promote deeper information sharing, foster greater integration of security- and defence-related science, technology, industrial bases and supply chains, and strengthen our cooperation in advanced and critical technologies and capabilities.\u2019<\/p>\n

Morrison used the event to release a \u2018blueprint for critical technologies\u2019 designed to balance the economic opportunities of critical technologies with their national security risks.<\/p>\n

Its goals are to:<\/span><\/p>\n