Indo-Pacific region News
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During the delegation-level talks, Rajnath Singh highlighted that the growing complexities in the India-Japan bilateral defence exercises are a "testimony" to the deepening of defence cooperation between the two countries.
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During the three-day pilots will conduct almost 200 mid-air refuelling manoeuvres, said German air force chief Ingo Gerhartz. The deployment also includes detours to Japan and South Korea.
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Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles will be on an India visit next week
This will be the first high-level visit from the country after the new Australian PM Anthony Albanese took charge last month
Richard Marles will be in Delhi on 21st and 22nd June, to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh
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During the Quad Leaders' Summit in Tokyo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the mutual trust and determination among the Quad member countries are encouraging a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.
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India-Japan are key pillars of a stable, secure Indo-Pacific region
PM Modi has written this in an op-ed in Japan
The PM is in Japan to attend the QUAD Summit
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Quad is an informal grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States
Climate change, COVID and China`s "coercion" in the Indo-Pacific will top the QUAD agenda
The discussions will also expand into an escalating crisis between the West and Russia over Ukraine
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India, Japan, the US and Australia gave shape to the long-pending proposal of setting up the Quad in Nov 2017
They decided to develop a new strategy to keep the critical sea routes in the Indo-Pacific free of any influence
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India has had a longstanding relationship with the Russians for security cooperation and for military equipment
Aquilino said that the goal of the Chinese is to supplant US security leadership in the region
Quad countries -- the US, India, Australia and Japan -- held their first virtual summit on March 12
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Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu emphasised that the relations between New Delhi and Washington is going "much deeper".
The virtual meet attended by members of Quad, a strategic forum comprising India, Japan, Australia and the United States of America, has firmly set a "democratic diamond" around China.
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Following the first-ever virtual summit of the top leaders of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) on March 12, the leaders jointly-authored opinion article for The Washington Post.
The Quad countries have pledged to work with other countries who share the same goals to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are administered throughout the region till 2022.
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The US has said that the Biden Administration welcomes India's emergence as ‘leading global power’, role in Indo-Pacific region
The State Department says we welcome India joining the UN Security Council in the last month of this year for a two-year term
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PM Narendra Modi has invited US President Biden and the First Lady to visit India
According to the MEA, the two leaders discussed at length regional developments and the wider geopolitical context.
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PM Narendra Modi on Monday spoke with US President Joe Biden, in the first-ever direct conversation between the two world leaders.
On January 27, the first official and public contact between the governments of PM Modi and the US President took place.
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In a first, France has appointed an envoy for the Indo Pacific, a move that shows how Paris is giving priority to the new concept.
Senior diplomat Christophe Penot will be the country's envoy to Indo Pacific and he begins his assignment from October 15 (Thursday).
Penot's last posting was Canberra as France's envoy to Australia.
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Indonesian foreign minister Retno L. P. Marsudi arrived in Delhi on Friday on a two-day visit to attend the combined session of the Indian Ocean Dialogue and the Delhi Dialogue XI.
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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday conveyed to US Secretary of Defence Mark T. Esper that there was growing convergence between India and the US in the Indo-Pacific region, and bilateral cooperation between the two sides has grown across a wide range of issues.
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Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa claimes that the Indian Air Force is "very much alive" to emerging threats that could arise in the Indo Pacific region.
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India is an active member in the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia.
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India and Vietnam on Saturday agreed to work for an independent, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.
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Immediate threat from North Korea, long-term challenge from China a worry: Top US military commander
Chief of US Pacific Command Admiral Harry Harris Jr. has said that multilateralism is the way ahead for peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.
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