In Snub To China, India's Naval Alliance Now Includes Australia: 10 Facts
The Malabar series of Naval exercises started in 1992 as a bilateral Indian Navy-US Navy exercise.
In Snub To China, India's Naval Alliance Now Includes Australia: 10 Facts New Delhi: In a snub to China amid border tension, India today said Australia would join the high-level Malabar naval exercises, which makes it the full "Quad" or quadrilateral coalition in the mega drill next month, along with the US and Japan. The Malabar exercises will take place in November-end in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. Australia will return to the joint manoeuvres after its participation in 2007 that drew criticism from China. Here are the 10 points on this important story: 1. China has been suspicious of the drill that started in 1992 as a bilateral exercise between India and the US and went on to include Japan in 2015. Beijing believes that the annual war game is an effort to fight its influence in the Indo-Pacific region. 2. Whether to include Australia in the annual drill had been discussed in the Quad foreign ministers' meet in Tokyo earlier this month. After resisting the idea for years due to Beijing's views, India, given its bitter border co…
