India & Australia to crank up defence ties, even as Canberra backs Delhi on Ladakh confrontation with China


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NEW DELHI: India and Australia on Wednesday resolved to further crank up their defence ties through combat exercises, intelligence-sharing, reciprocal logistics and military-industrial collaboration as well as work steadfastly towards their shared objective of an open, resilient and secure Indo-Pacific in the face of aggressive moves by China. Australian deputy PM and defence minister Richard Marles, in the first high-level visit to India since the new Anthony Albanese government came to power in Canberra, strongly backed India in its over two-year long military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh. “The assault on Indian forces along the Line of Actual Control...