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Amid Ongoing Standoff With China, Australia To Join Malabar Naval Exercise Next Month

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Australia is set to participate in the Malabar Exercise for the first time along with navies of India, US and Japan amid the India-China standoff.

Until now, only US, Japan and India were part of the naval exercise which is scheduled to be held in November.

This will be the first time Australia will be part of the exercise.

It has taken the Indian government some time to finalise on Australia’s participation. There had been some concerns about how China may react to the move.