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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:15PM (#30618023)
> Because quite a lot of people in China think US is organizing an Eastern NATO, to "destabilize" the whole region.

We had one of those, it was called SEATO. There's been only negative progress since on that front.

> For example, the nuclear-powered marine deal with Australia

AUKUS involved countries already in NATO-like agreements with the US (UK is in NATO, Australia in ANZUS) so it doesn't really change much in terms of security alignment.

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Re:China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line o... by sofixa on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:35AM (#30624179)
> AUKUS involved countries already in NATO-like agreements with the US (UK is in NATO, Australia in ANZUS) so it doesn't really change much in terms of security alignment.

It does, because it pissed off France ( which also has territory in the Pacific) for no good reason, and also stated that the choice of nuclear subs is due to the Chinese threat. And also it pushed the delivery date of new Australian submarines by at least a decade, probably more.

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