{"id":343710,"date":"2025-07-30T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=343710"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T06:35:14","slug":"geelong-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/geelong-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News- <\/strong>Australia and the UK have signed the Geelong Treaty under AUKUS Pillar I. The US, though part of AUKUS, is not a signatory, raising questions about the alliance&#8217;s future cohesion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_343711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343711\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-343711\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Geelong-Treaty.png?resize=484%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Geelong Treaty\" width=\"484\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Geelong-Treaty.png?w=741&amp;ssl=1 741w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Geelong-Treaty.png?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- The Sunday Morning Herald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>About Geelong Treaty<\/h2>\n<p>It is a bilateral Nuclear-Powered Submarine Partnership and Collaboration Treaty between Australia and the United Kingdom under the broader umbrella of AUKUS Pillar I.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key highlights of the treaty<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Duration<\/strong>: The treaty envisages <em>50 years of strategic cooperation<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus<\/strong>: It enables comprehensive collaboration on the design, construction, operation, sustainment, and eventual disposal of a <em>new generation of nuclear-powered conventionally armed submarines<\/em>, referred to as SSN-AUKUS.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>: It marks the most detailed and long-term defense manufacturing and technology sharing deal between the two countries in history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Context<\/strong>: The treaty was signed amid uncertainty over US commitment, as the Trump administration launched a review to assess whether the AUKUS submarine pact aligns with its \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About AUKUS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AUKUS (Australia\u2013United Kingdom\u2013United States) is a<em> trilateral security pact launched in September 2021<\/em> with the aim of strengthening deterrence and security in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly in the context of China&#8217;s growing assertiveness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AUKUS is structured into two core pillars:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pillar I:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Deals with the <em>transfer of nuclear-powered submarine technology to Australia<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Enables the Royal Australian Navy to acquire and operate conventionally armed, <em>nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Includes<em> joint development of SSN-AUKUS class submarines with UK and US involvement.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pillar II:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Focuses on joint advanced capabilities in areas such as:\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial Intelligence (AI)<\/li>\n<li>Quantum technologies<\/li>\n<li>Cybersecurity<\/li>\n<li>Undersea technologies<\/li>\n<li>Hypersonic and counter-hypersonic systems<\/li>\n<li>Electronic warfare and innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News- Australia and the UK have signed the Geelong Treaty under AUKUS Pillar I. The US, though part of AUKUS, is not a signatory, raising questions about the alliance&#8217;s future cohesion. About Geelong Treaty It is a bilateral Nuclear-Powered Submarine Partnership and Collaboration Treaty between Australia and the United Kingdom under the broader umbrella of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/geelong-treaty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geelong Treaty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-343710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}