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Commentary: Why Southeast Asia is nervous about AUKUS and Australia's nuclear submarines ASEAN insists it must decide what is best for Southeast Asia - but nuclear nations play a different game, says an Asian Studies professor. HOBART, Australia: The announcement of a new strategic alliance between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom (AUKUS) has caught many by surprise. Besides France, which reacted with fury over Australia’s scrapping of a major submarine deal with a French company, few countries were as surprised as Australia’s neighbours to the north, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In particular, Indonesia and...
