France will not support a new trilateral security partnership between Australia, Britain and the United States, known as AUKUS, said the country's envoy for the Indo-Pacific, voicing concern it could escalate tensions in the region at a time of fraught China-U.S. relations."The approach is not suitable for us," the envoy, Christophe Penot, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News, referring to the trilateral initiative that would help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines.France previously had its own joint submarine deal with Australia before Canberra abandoned it without warning …READ FULL ARTICLE
