and that was largely aimed at the soviet union. and that s a decade old s agreement. this agreement with the same kind of technology in the pacific in the hands of australia in a direct challenge to china. so that s the main reason that china is upset about this. they see it for what it is, which is a complete and challenge to chinese naval power in the pacific by somebody other than the united states. right now there is a daily cat and mouse between u.s. and chinese ships across the south china sea and else where in the indo pacific. australia is involved and now australia when they get this technology will have much more powerful ships to work with. where france comes in as you said in the opener france was set to sell australia a different kind of submarine and that deal had apparently gone south, but it was a multi-billion dollar deal and
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