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How India and Australia Are Navigating a Securitized Asia-Pacific - Steptoe
Why it matters
India-Australia security coordination directly strengthens Pillar 7 (Alliance) and supports Pillar 5 (Decoupling) by expanding the coalition of democracies offsetting Chinese strategic expansion. This signals to Beijing that regional alignment against hegemonic pressure is deepening, and to the United States that the Indo-Pacific pivot remains strategically sound.
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