The creation of AUKUS is only further confirmation, as if more were needed, that the Biden administration intends to wage a new cold war in Asia with China as its target.
This is not a development we Americans should welcome. As the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s Anatol Lieven has recently observed, a new cold war “with China … will continue to lock in place the power of the US military-industrial complex and squander trillions more on wasteful and unnecessary military programs designed to benefit American corporations rather than defend the actual security of actual American citizens.”
