Australia will finally rejoin Malabar exercise, add muscle to Quad & send message to China

After 13 years of dilly-dallying, Australia will finally rejoin the trilateral Malabar maritime exercise that includes India, Japan and the US and is set to take place later next month, ThePrint has learnt.

The decision was firmed up at the last informal meeting of the Quad countries — US, Japan, Australia and India — that took place in Tokyo on 6 October, diplomatic and defence sources told ThePrint.

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