The day he leaves the Quai d’Orsay, May 21, 2022, Jean-Yves Le Drian will be happy. At the moment of the transfer of power, the former foreign minister learned of the defeat of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the election. A man who, a few months earlier, had betrayed France by, without warning, torpedoing the “contract of the century” signed in 2016, intended to bind the two countries for thirty years with the sale to the French Naval Group of twelve French conventionally powered submarines.
“SkoMo,” as he was nicknamed, didn’t want it anymore. Obsessed with China’s rise, he radically changed his strategy to favor American nuclear submarines. After months of secret negotiations behind the backs of the French, Morrison unveiled a new partnership called “Aukus” (short for Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States) on live television on September 15, 2021, at the same time as his American and British counterparts.
Source: Le Parisien
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