Australia is set to participate in the Malabar Exercise for the first time along with navies of India, US and Japan amid the India-China standoff. Until now, only US, Japan and India were part of the naval exercise which is scheduled to be held in November. Snub to China This will be the first time … Read more
TOKYO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was more critical now than ever for the regional allies in Indo-Pacific to collaborate against what he called Chinese Communist Party’s “exploitation, coercion and corruption.” Speaking at the start of a Quad meeting, a gathering of the foreign ministers of United States, Australia, India and Japan, … Read more
New Delhi: The foreign ministers and national security advisers of the Quadrilateral, a strategic forum between India, the US, Japan and Australia, are preparing to meet in September and October, as China’s foreign policy unnerves countries in the Indo-Pacific region. Plans are afoot to organise back-to-back and in-person meetings ahead of the US Presidential polls … Read more