China News Service, September 18th. Comprehensive foreign media reported that after Australia abandoned its purchase of submarines from France and turned to cooperate with the United States and Britain to build a nuclear-powered submarine fleet, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 17th that it would recall its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in protest. .
Before leaving Australia, the French ambassador to Australia expressed angrily that Australia had made a "great mistake."
The French ambassador to Australia Tebaut said: "This is a huge mistake, and the handling of the partnership is very, very bad." He said that the weapons agreement between France and Australia should be based on "trust, mutual understanding and sincerity." On the basis of.
He added: "I hope to be able to enter a time machine so that we will not fall into such an unbelievable, clumsy, inappropriate, and very'non-Australian' situation."
The United States, Britain, and Australia announced on the 15th the establishment of a defense alliance to assist Australia in the development of nuclear-powered submarines; Australia also announced that it would cancel the huge submarine deal with France and instead cooperate with the United States and Britain.
France expressed anger at this decision on the 16th, criticizing the move as treachery, like a "stab in the back."
Tebaut said: "What's worse... We got very reliable reports from independent media. All of this took place in 18 months, which means that we have been deliberately kept in the dark. Months."
The Australian Foreign Minister Payne’s office issued a statement earlier in response to the recall of the French ambassador, expressing “regret”.