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CACDA Successfully Held the Press Conference about the Research Report on the Nuclear Proliferation Risk of AUKUS Collaboration on Nuclear-powered Submarines
Time:2022-07-20 15:38         Author:军控协会         Source:未知

On July 20, 2022, the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (CACDA) and China Institute of Nuclear Industry Strategy (CINIS) jointly held a press conference about the Research Report, A Dangerous Conspiracy: The Nuclear Proliferation Risk of the Nuclear-powered Submarines Collaboration in the Context of AUKUS. H.E. Zhang Yan, President of CACDA, and Pan Qilong, Chairman of CINIS, attended and addressed the event. Li Chijiang, Vice President & Secretary General of CACDA hosted the press conference. Experts introduced the main content of the report and answered questions from media. Experts and scholars from CACDA, CINIS, Strategic Research Center of China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, China Institute of Atomic Energy, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, Tsinghua University, Peking University and other institutions, as well as media representatives from China and Asia-Pacific region attended the conference.

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Zhang Yan said that following the Five Eyes Alliance and the QUAD (The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between the United States, Japan, India and Australia), the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia announced the establishment of the enhanced trilateral security partnership (known as “AUKUS”) in September 2021. The AUKUS is a new political and military alliance jointly created by the US and a few countries. It serves the Indo-Pacific Strategy led by the US, which aims to provoke regional confrontation and split-up, engaged in geopolitical zero sum game, bringing new destabilizing factors to the international and regional situation. Under the AUKUS framework, three countries have announced a high-profile collaboration on nuclear-powered submarines, which involves a major and highly sensitive issue -- the transfer of weapon-grade nuclear materials. This will be the first time since the entry into force of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), that nuclear-weapon states transfer tons of weapon-grade nuclear materials to a non-nuclear-weapon state, enough to manufacture nearly a hundred pieces of nuclear weapons. It sets a bad example and creates serious nuclear proliferation risk.

Zhang Yan pointed out that the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines collaboration seriously violates the international obligations undertaken by the three countries and will bring multiple hazards, including violating the objectives and purposes of the NPT, contravening the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), impacting on the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, undermining global strategic stability and balance, inducing nuclear arms race, and endangering peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. As the Tenth Review Conference of NPT is about to be held soon, the US, the UK and Australia should seriously respond to the concerns of the international community, earnestly fulfill their obligations under international law, abandon their double standards on nuclear non-proliferation issues, and immediately stop and completely discard such collaboration. At the same time, the international community should continue to take decisive actions, and use multilateral platforms such as the NPT Review Conference and the IAEA Board of Governors meeting to urge the three countries to cancel their erroneous decisions so as to maintain the integrity, authority and effectiveness of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.

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Pan Qilong introduced the background of the research report, and emphasized that the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine collaboration sets a dangerous example of illegal transfer of weapon-grade nuclear materials from nuclear-weapon states to non-nuclear-weapon states. It is a blatant act of nuclear proliferation, which has aroused widespread concern and criticism from international community. He said that as authoritative organizations in conducting arms control research and professional think tanks in the nuclear field, CACDA and CINIS have regularly brought together domestic experts and scholars in the field of arms control and nuclear non-proliferation to conduct in depth research from political, legal and technology angles, to analyze the nuclear proliferation risk and serious hazards caused by the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine collaboration. It is our hope that this report will facilitate China and the international community to accurately and comprehensively understand the situation, and communicate from an academic perspective the concerns of Chinese think tanks and scholars’ concerns over nuclear proliferation risks and their commitment to safeguarding world peace and security.

 This is the first research report that Chinese academic institutes have publicly released on the AUKUS Nuclear-powered Submarines Collaboration. The report consists of 8 chapters in about 12000 Chinese characters. Through detailed data and case studies, the report objectively analyzes the serious nuclear proliferation risks and multiple hazards caused by AUKUS Nuclear-powered Submarines Collaboration and makes relevant recommendations. The main contents of the report include: The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine collaboration seriously violates the objectives and purpose of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and constitutes a blatant act of nuclear proliferation; The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine collaboration is obviously for military purposes, which is in direct violation of the IAEA’s Statute; The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine collaboration poses great legal and technical challenges to the IAEA's safeguards system; The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine collaboration seriously undermines nuclear-weapon-free-zone treaties; in view of its past nuclear ambition, Australia may seek to develop nuclear weapons again in the future; The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine collaboration will cause other adverse effects, including undermining the global strategic stability and balance, posing serious nuclear security risks, triggering potential arms race in nuclear-powered submarines, and weakening the current international missile export control regime; The international community should take actions to urge the AUKUS countries to revoke their wrong decision, and jointly safeguard the integrity, authority and effectiveness of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.

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 At the press conference, President Zhang Yan, Chairman Pan Qilong and Secretary General Li Chijiang were interviewed by CCTV, CGTN, Shenzhen TV, the People’s Liberation Army Daily, Global Times, and other media, respectively. After the conference, other scholars and experts exchanged views with reporters on related issues.


危险的合谋:美英澳核潜艇合作的核扩散风险.pdf


A Dangerous Conspiracy:The Nuclear Proliferation Risk of the Nuclear-powered Submarines Collaboration in the Context of AUKUS.pdf



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