So now in addition to the Quad Security Dialogue of the United States, Australia, Japan and India, we now have the August Security Pact where three powers, Great Britain, Australia and the United States will be cooperating in the region, specifically against Chi-na
(as I recently discovered in another thread).
Beijing says the deal, involving nuclear-powered submarines, undermines regional peace.
www.bbc.com
Unlike say the Five Eyes Agreements which is focused on intelligence, this is focused on military capability and most notably as discussed already, the Australian's scrapping their $70 billion dollar agreement for a dozen French conventional submarines and instead getting a (nuclear) technological transfer from the US and/or UK to help them construct their own nuclear submarines. This is the first time that America has shared in nuclear military technology with another country in over fifty years, the last time apparently being in 1958 when they helped Britain start their nuclear submarine program.