The AUKUS submarine deal that deprived France of a hefty contract with Canberra has led to a “big loss of confidence” in the Biden administration, a former foreign policy advisor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
The agreement between Washington, London and Canberra to provide Australia with nuclear-powered, yet conventionally armed submarines, which was announced earlier this month, became an “insult to a NATO partner” from the US, Christoph Heusgen, Germany’s former UN envoy, who advised Merkel on foreign policy for 12 years, told the Financial Times.
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