{"id":7348,"date":"2020-10-22T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2020-10-22T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T08:32:00","slug":"english-australia-to-join-u-s-india-japan-for-naval-exercise-malabar-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/2020\/10\/22\/english-australia-to-join-u-s-india-japan-for-naval-exercise-malabar-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to Join U.S., India, Japan for Naval Exercise “Malabar 2020″"},"content":{"rendered":"Australia will join India, the United States and Japan in next month’s Malabar naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, in a move that is expected to strengthen the military relationship between the four countries amid increased tensions with China.<\/p>\n

The participation of Australia means that all four members of the so-called Quad will be participating in the exercises for the first time since 2007.<\/p>\n

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The Quad, or\u00a0Quadrilateral Security Dialogue<\/a>, is an informal strategic forum for the US, Japan, Australia and India, featuring semi-regular summits and information exchanges between the four nations.<\/p>\n

While not a formal military alliance like NATO, it is seen by some as a potential counterweight to growing Chinese influence and alleged aggression in Asia-Pacific. The collation has been denounced by Beijing as an anti-China bloc.<\/p>\n

Australian Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said late on Monday that the drills were about\u00a0 \u201cdemonstrating our collective resolve to support an open and prosperous Indo-Pacific\u201d \u2013 a allusion to countering China\u2019s power.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s Ministry of Defence said the naval drill would take place in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, which has been a hotspot for Indo-Chinese strategic competition.<\/p>\n

The drill comes at a time of diplomatic tensions between China and Australia, economic tensions between China and the US and military tensions between China and India.<\/p>\n

A renewed push to develop the Quad into a formal counterbalance to China included talks between foreign ministers in Tokyo earlier this month.<\/p>\n

At that meeting, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Asian allies to unite against China\u2019s \u201cexploitation, corruption and coercion\u201d in the region.\/.<\/p>\n

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Australia will join India, the United States and Japan in next month’s Malabar naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, in a move that is expected to strengthen the military relationship between the four countries amid increased tensions with China. The participation of Australia means that all four members of the so-called Quad will be participating …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97,37],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}