India-Australia Defence Ties Grow with Eye on China’s Indo-Pacific Moves
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- •India and Australia are developing a flexible defence partnership focused on countering China’s Indo-Pacific assertiveness.
- •A new logistics support agreement enables reciprocal base access and joint deployments across the Indian Ocean and Pacific.
- •Joint naval exercises like AUSINDEX and Malabar now include advanced anti-submarine warfare and coalition operations.
- •Both countries are enhancing maritime domain awareness through satellite surveillance and shared intelligence systems.
- •Defence technology collaboration links Australia’s undersea-warfare expertise with India’s growing defence-industrial base.
- •Army-to-army cooperation and professional military education are being expanded during high-level defence visits.
- •The partnership aims to institutionalise these arrangements to ensure long-term regional stability and deterrence.
India and Australia are recasting their defence relationship into a flexible, forward-looking partnership aimed at countering China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Rather than forming a rigid alliance, the two nations are building a network of practical, scalable arrangements that can be adjusted as regional dynamics shift. This calibrated approach was underscored during Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s recent visit to Australia, where both sides emphasised interoperability and crisis-management capabilities as core objectives.
