Toronto (Canada), May 8 (EFE).- Canada has a great interest in deepening its relationship with the AUKUS security pact, formed by Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, although the Canadian Defense Minister, Anita Anand, is declined to confirm on Monday whether Ottawa has applied to join the deal.
Anand expressed his intention to deepen cooperation with the Pacific defensive pact during a press conference in Ottawa on the occasion of the visit of his Polish counterpart, Mariusz Blaszczak, and after a Canadian newspaper published on Monday that Canada wants to join AUKUS. .
“Canada is very interested in deepening cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing and other advanced technologies with our closest allies,” she said after being asked several times about Ottawa’s alleged intention to join AUKUS.
The creation of AUKUS was announced in 2021. And in March of this year, as a result of the pact, Australia said that it will provide itself with submarines based on the design of the new generation of British ships and equipped with American nuclear propulsion technology.
AUKUS also includes cooperation at the highest level in AI, quantum computing, and hypersonic technology, among others.
China frames the agreement in the growing geopolitical conflict that Beijing maintains with Washington and the possible integration of Canada in AUKUS would take place amid worsening diplomatic relations between Canada and China.
In December last year, Canada published a long-term strategic action plan for the Indo-Pacific region that is based on dealing with China, a country that Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has accused of being a “ increasingly disruptive global power.
In recent weeks, press leaks have revealed that Canadian intelligence services accuse China of interference in the last two Canadian general elections, held in 2019 and 2021, in which the Beijing authorities supported up to 11 candidates considered favorable to the regime. Chinese.
