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原文地址：‘Historic breakthrough’: US ditches defense trade restrictions with top allies to counter China
新闻日期：2024-08-16
美国及其主要盟友最近采取了重要步骤，废除防务贸易限制，以加快技术设备的共享速度。这一“历史性突破”意味着英国和澳大利亚将不再受到美国国际武器出口管制规定（ITAR）的严格控制，其中多数美国国防技术将免于管控。
“我们希望英国成为美国的第一大盟友，而澳大利亚也渴望成为美国在太平洋区域的第一大盟友。”一位熟悉协议的英国官员在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示，“AUKUS伙伴关系是关于我们共同认识到中国带来的威胁，并且我们需要作为美国的盟友，尽一切可能参与与中国在这个领域的竞争。”
这一改革预计每年为英国带来高达5亿英镑的防务出口，并带动三国总计数十亿美元的贸易增长，从而推动彼此间共享技术并提升经济。
这个联盟成立于2021年，旨在对抗北京，而随着美国和英国计划帮助澳大利亚获得核动力潜艇，以增强其在印度-太平洋地区抵御中国威胁的能力，这一合作显得尤为重要。
“我觉得潜艇对印太地区和遏制中国的重要性无法 overstating。”该官员在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示，“尽管它们看起来有些过时，但仍然非常关键。”
尽管欧洲盟国曾对AUKUS联盟感到一些不满和担忧，认为美国和英国可能在欧洲安全威胁增加之际，逐渐远离欧洲。然而，华盛顿和伦敦对此表示了反驳，并指出与美国的紧密联系将有助于深化全球各地的安全合作。
“英国作为美国的亲密盟友，使英国和美国在北约中的关系更加稳固。”该官员说道，“我认为这不会让我们彼此疏远，反而能增强我们在欧洲大西洋地区进行军事行动的能力。”
（来源：福克斯新闻）
原文摘要：
The U.S. and its top allies have taken a significant step in removing defense trade restrictions to ensure that technology and equipment can be shared at rapid speed as the AUKUS partnership looks to counter growing Chinese threats in the Indo Pacific. The “historic breakthrough” means the U.K. and Australia will no longer be subject to strict export license controls under the U.S.’s International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR) for the “majority” of Washington’s defense technology. “We want the U.K. to be the U.S.’s number-one ally, and Australia’s desire is to be the U.S.’s number-one ally in the Pacific,” a U.K. official familiar with the agreement told Fox News Digital. “AUKUS is about us recognizing the threat that China poses and the need for us, as America’s allies, to do everything we can to be part of competing with China in that space.” US, UK AND AUSTRALIA TAKE NEXT STEP IN INTEGRATING AI DEFENSE SYSTEMS A limited number of sensitive items will remain under tight U.S. control, and the U.K. official said this is another area in which the alliance can look to deepen its trust and partnership in the face of growing adversarial aggression. “We’re looking for deep collaboration with the U.S. over the coming period,” the official said. “Some of the restrictions that remain on the excluded lists will be in those very advanced technologies where the U.S. is still rightly cautious about controlling access to them and really safeguarding the technology. “What we want to do with this new status quo is use it to show that our industry is equally competent of controlling those secrets, equally competent of safeguarding the technology, so we can build even more trust with the U.S., so we can expand this sharing of technology even further,” the U.K. official added. The official could not pinpoint the percentage of U.S. defense weapons and technology that will remain exempt from the latest trade-sharing deal but noted that those exemptions remain only in the “far reaches of technology” on systems involving artificial intelligence, autonomous weaponry and hypersonic weaponry. The reform is estimated to cover up to £500 million in U.K. defense exports annually along with billions of dollars of trade across all three nations, which will in turn “boost our shared economic growth,” Fox News Digital was told. The AUKUS deal comes as the U.S. and the U.K. look to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines as the alliance looks to bolster its defense posture to counter Chinese aggression in the region and beyond. US NAVY UNDER SECRETARY ERIK RAVEN ON THE AUKUS AGREEMENT “I think it’s very difficult to overstate how important the submarines are, in terms of the Indo-Pacific and containing China,” the official told Fox News Digital. “Just because they look quite old school, they are still very, very critical to that theater.” The alliance, which was formed in 2021 specifically to counter Beijing, was received with some frustration and concern among European allies who feared that the U.S. and the U.K. were distancing themselves from Europe at a time when security threats on the continent had reached a level not seen since World War II. But Washington and London have pushed back on these arguments, and in speaking with Fox News Digital, the British official highlighted that increasing ties with the U.S. can only help deepen security in theatres across the globe. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “The U.K. being a very close ally of the U.S. helps lock the U.K. and the U.S. together in NATO,” the official argued. “I don’t think this does anything to distance us from that. “If anything, it gives us both even better capability and even better interoperability to work together in the Euro-Atlantic area if we needed to do that militarily,” the official added.
