Dan Tehan says free trade agreement, which will be upgraded to a full-fledged Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, is a move to diversify exports & not be China-dependent.
China-made Sinovac has also been approved by Australia's top drugs regulator, removing a barrier for international students seeking to study in the country, PM Scott Morrison said.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and his Australian counterpart Dan Tehan announce FTA target during latter's India visit, say interim deal will cover areas of immediate interest.
Just a week after first in-person Quad summit, Australian PM Scott Morrison says Canberra not in 'containment club' when it comes to China since it has 'greatly benefited' from it.
The US has said quite clearly that Quad and AUKUS have nothing to do with each other. That should quieten those who have been calling the Quad an ‘Asian NATO’
This will be the first ministerial visit from Australia after it joined a new security alliance with the UK & the US that raised apprehensions about its possible impact on the Quad.
Southeast Asian nations are worried the US-UK-Australia partnership, which will help Canberra acquire nuclear-powered submarines, could provoke China and spur a regional arms race.
After negative growth in 2022-23, air cargo volumes grew 18% year-on-year from October 2023 to March 2024 and 20% year-on-year from April 2024 to August 2024.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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