Peace campaigners have spoken out against public sector support for a new Rolls Royce office in Wales they say will increase tensions between the West and China.

The office is linked to the building of a new fleet of attack nuclear-powered submarines for the Australian military, as part of AUKUS, a military partnership between Australia, the UK and the US, aimed at containing China.

Campaigners are calling for an urgent public debate on ending Welsh involvement in AUKUS.

Adam Johannes, joint secretary of Cardiff Stop the War Coalition, said: “Welsh media and politicians have been entirely uncritical about Rolls Royce Submarines coming to Cardiff, framing it as job creation, rather than what it is, locking Wales into manufacturing military hardware for a new Cold War with China, fuelling a new arms race, and escalating military tensions that could end in catastrophic war.