India and Australia want to strengthen ties

India and Australia are keen to strengthen bilateral ties, including on security issues. “Significant and ambitious progress has been made,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said after meeting his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi today. For example, the exchange of information on maritime affairs is increasing. Albanese is currently in India with a business delegation for four days.

India and Australia, along with the US and Japan, are part of a defense alliance known as the Quad Alliance. A quartet of leading democracies in the Indo-Pacific region wants to reduce China’s influence in the region. Broadly speaking, the Indo-Pacific is the region from India to the North Pacific Ocean, covering most of Asia and extending to the west coast of the United States.

Albanese said, “Prime Minister Modi and I discussed the increasingly uncertain global security environment and are committed to strengthening the Australia-India defense and security partnership to address shared challenges and work towards an open, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific.”