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India Australia Joint Naval Exercise: India and Australia are coming together for the first time on Quad’s military platform. Malabar Exercise will include Australia for the first time along with the US, Japan, and India, which has been kept away by India cares about China.

Highlights

• This time Australia will join the Malabar naval exercise
• Till now India used to make war with Japan and America
• A major decision was taken after China’s decision on the border in Ladakh
• India ready to demonstrate military power of quad countries

Four major powers are ready to come together in Malabar for the first time to stop China in trouble in the Pacific as well as in the Indian Ocean. Australia may soon be invited to India for this year’s Malabar naval maneuvers. With this, for the first time, the informally formed Quad Group will be seen on the military stage. This includes Japan and the United States along with India and Australia. Till now India had kept Australia away from it, but in view of China’s action on the border in Ladakh, there is a plan to call it as well.

Was still limited to quad

According to a Bloomberg report, the proposal for a formal invitation to Australia could be sealed by next week. Malabar previously used to be a limited naval maneuver but is now an important part of the Indo-Pacific strategy. Under this, a major goal is to stop China’s move in the Indian Ocean. Japan joined it in 2015.

China will get a strong message

India stopped Australia from joining it in 2017, thinking that Beijing might see it as a military extension of the Quad, but India eventually tightened its stance, given the heightened border tension and China’s aggressive attitude. is. The report quoted Derek Grossman of the Washington-based RAND Corporation as saying, “This will send an important message to China that the Quad is actually conducting joint naval exercises.”

Support of regional and global forces necessary for India

Prior to the violence in Ladakh, India tried to balance its relations with its largest trade partner China and on the other hand, also strengthened relations with countries like the US. In the report, the High Commissioner of India to Pakistan G. Parthasarthy has said, “Our bilateral economic sanctions on China are necessary, but we need to remember that China can only be affected if we work in cooperation with regional and global forces.”

Important to strengthen the quad

According to former foreign secretary and senior fellow of the Center for Policy Research, Shyam Saran, China will benefit from not strengthening the quad. He has stated that as long as China is persuaded to follow instructions from different sides, the Indo-Pacific strategy will have to be used in response to the power of Beijing and the Quad will be at its center. He says that India needs to understand clearly where its interest lies.