As part of the AUKUS deal, Australia will get nuclear-powered submarines to counter China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. According to China, AUKUS violates the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Beijing has argued the transfer of nuclear weapons materials from a nuclear-weapon state to a non-nuclear-weapon state was a "blatant" violation of the spirit of the pact.

Currently, no party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty other than the five countries the NPT recognizes as weapons states — the US, Russia, China, Britain and France — has nuclear submarines.

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