On November 10, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “AUKUS: A New Cold War in the Indo-Pacific?”. Salvatore Babones, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney; Andrew Futter, Professor of International Politics, University of Leicester, UK; Vasily Kashin, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE); Sim Tack, co-founder and chief military analyst at Force Analysis, participated. The discussion was moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.