U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy: Case of AUKUS

The three countries of Australia, Britain and the United States signed a security agreement on September 15, 2021, which, although it did not seem to have a specific audience, but it faced a strong reaction from China, Russia, France and the European Union. Each of these countries had its own concerns about the agreement, with China and Russia considering it a threat, and the European Union and France also outraged by the ignorance and cancellation of the French submarine agreement.B y using descriptive analytical method and applying the concept of "new superiority", this study intends to explain the necessity of this agreement in the US strategy and its consequence; So the main question of the article is, with focus on AKUS, what is the US strategy towards the Indo-Pacific region and what will be the consequences of this agreement be? The hypothesis is that the US strategy is to confront China directly; while Europe's strategy, on the other hand, is to prevent entering in Great powers competition and not to confront China directly. Thus, the United States, by eliminating the European Union, and especially France, set up an independent mechanism to respond to challenges and threats, thereby warning other allies and partners. The most important consequences are weakening adherence to non-proliferation, increase in arms race, reduce in European confidence in the United States, making China more aggressive in the region, and further moving toward strategic European independence.