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Trilateral naval exercises in the South China Sea were conducted by the US, Japan and Australia on Monday, the US Seventh Fleet reported yesterday.
Trilateral naval exercises in the South China Sea were conducted by the US, Japan and Australia on Monday, the US Seventh Fleet reported yesterday.
It was their fifth joint operation in the fleet's operations area this year, it said in a statement.The JS Kirisame of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force and the Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Arunta joined the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain.
Meanwhile, Canberra and New Delhi declared yesterday that Australia will join, at the end of this year, the annual Malabar naval exercises to be conducted off the Indian coast with Japan and the US.
In the statement, the exercise is to be conducted in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea to "strengthen cooperation between navies," said the Indian Ministry of Defense.
For the first time since 2007, the decision to include Australia in the exercises means that all members of the international grouping known as the Quad will be militarily active.
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