Cold war echoes as Aukus alliance focuses on China deterrence

Analysis: military alliance is more wide-ranging than Five Eyes agreement and may come to define future approach to Indo-Pacific security

• US, UK and Australia forge military alliance to counter China

For those who study the history of the cold war, Washington's new initiative with London and Canberra - known by its acronym Aukus" - has eery echoes of an intelligence-sharing agreement signed 75 years ago. This agreement is now more commonly known as the Five Eyes partnership.

When the seven-page full text of UKUSA agreement - as it was originally known - was finally released in June 2010, Time magazine called it one of the cold war's most important documents that reveals one of the foundations of the special relationship the UK and the US still hold dear".