The French ambassador to Australia, Jean-Pierre Thebault, has told Australian media that his mission in returning to the country is to determine whether France still trusts Australia after the sudden cancellation of a multibillion-dollar order for French submarines in favour of a new deal with the United States and the United Kingdom. Speaking to local radio on Friday, Thebault said that while he understood that it was Australia’s sovereign right to make a new deal to serve its national interests, France took exception to “the way it was managed,” which he said was “a serious breach in trust” that needs to be repaired. As part of the new AUKUS security alliance between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Australia will be supplied with technology to construct its own nuclear submarines. French officials allegedly learned of the deal just hours before U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement. France later recalled its Australian and U.S. ambassadors in …