AUKUS Alliance:
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: China has equated the India, U.S., Australia, Japan Quad grouping with the AUKUS (Australia, U.K., U.S.) defence pact, calling both “exclusive cliques” part of the Biden administration’s “ill-intentioned” Indo-Pacific strategy. It said, this ‘strategy’ resurrects the Cold War mentality …








