Furious China issues bone-chilling warning subs deal could 'make Australia a potential target for a NUCLEAR strike'
Australia will get nuclear powered submarines in a technology sharing deal with the US and the UK
Mr Morrison will now have to tear up previous $90billion French deal - to the fury of President Macron
China has warned the landmark deal 'damages regional peace and stability, intensifies the arms race'
State media also said Australia could become the target of a 'nuclear strike' in the event of a nuclear war
By Levi Parsons and Charlie Moore, Political Reporter For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 20:14 EDT, 16 September 2021 | Updated: 20:37 EDT, 16 September 2021
Chinese state media has warned Australia will become a 'potential target for a nuclear strike' after it acquires nuclear-powered submarines.
As part of a new three-way alliance with the UK and US, Australia will be given the technology to build at least eight nuclear-powered - but not nuclear armed - submarines as the West counters China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the 'AUKUS' alliance 'seriously damages regional peace and stability, intensifies the arms race, and undermines the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.'
And China's Global Times news website - a mouthpiece for the communist government - went one step further, saying the move could result in a nuclear strike on Australia.
The article cited an anonymous 'senior Chinese military expert' who said Australia would pose a nuclear threat to other countries because the new submarines could potentially be fitted with nuclear weapons provided by the US or UK.
'This would make Australia a potential target for a nuclear strike, because nuclear-armed states like China and Russia are directly facing the threat from Australia's nuclear submarines which serve US strategic demands,' the expert said.
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