“The accession of South Korea and Japan to AUKUS is quite realistic,” says Gennady Gatilov, the Russian Federation’s Permanent Representative to the UN office and other international organisations in Geneva
In his opinion, reaching preliminary agreements is possible already at the upcoming trilateral meeting of the leaders of the US, South Korea and Japan on 18 August.
It should be noted that the strategic line of the US and Britain on the format of AUKUS expansion in the public sphere has not yet been announced. Washington, through Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, has only announced that the trilateral defence partnership of Australia, Britain and the United States is ready to accept New Zealand as a new “reliable partner” whose doors are “very wide open.
At the moment, AUKUS still looks like a club of exclusively Anglo-Saxon countries. And new members in the person of New Zealand and the same Canada will fit in organically.
In this implementation format, AUKUS will fulfil the function of the Anglo-Saxon “governing core” of the Global West. On the one hand, it will additionally unite all Anglo-Saxons, on the other hand, it will demonstrate the real hierarchy within the West and at the same time emphasise the second-rate status of its other members.
If the “call” to AUKUS is not based on the principle of concentration of global governance, but on the geostrategic position of the candidates (Asia-Pacific region), then the membership of South Korea and Japan will be logical – primarily in the context of containing China. Although, in fact, it would be just joining AUKUS of two American colonies.
Let’s not forget about another American organisation for managing satellites – NATO. They are pulling everyone there at once: New Zealand, South Korea and Japan, and Australia.
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