{"id":230386,"date":"2023-03-10T19:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230386"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T14:15:22","slug":"india-a-top-tier-security-partner-open-indo-pacific-is-our-need-australia-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-a-top-tier-security-partner-open-indo-pacific-is-our-need-australia-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"India a top-tier security partner, open Indo-Pacific is our need: Australia PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c\u2018India a top-tier security partner, open Indo-Pacific is our need: Australia PM\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published i<\/span><b>n Indian Express on 10th March 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Australian Prime Minister is on a visit to India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About India-Australia Cooperation in different sectors<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Economic cooperation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Economic Cooperation Trade Agreement (ECTA) \u2014 the first free trade agreement signed by India with a developed country in a decade \u2014 entered into force in December 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This has resulted in an immediate reduction of duty to zero on 96% of Indian exports to Australia in value (that is 98% of the tariff lines) and zero duty on 85% of Australia\u2019s exports (in value) to India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Bilateral trade was US$ 27.5 billion in 2021; with ECTA, there is potential for it to reach around US$ 50 billion in five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>People-to-people ties:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India is one of the top sources of skilled immigrants to Australia. As per the 2021 Census, around 9.76 lakh people in Australia reported their ancestry as Indian origin, making them the second-largest group of overseas-born residents in Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Education:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Educational Qualifications (MREQ) was signed in March 2023. This will facilitate the mobility of students between India and Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Deakin University and the University of Wollongong are planning to open campuses in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 More than 1 lakh Indian students are pursuing higher education degrees in Australian universities, making Indian students the second-largest cohort of foreign students in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Defence cooperation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue was held in September 2021 and the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Australia visited in June 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA) was concluded during the Virtual Summit in June 2020 and the two militaries held several joint exercises in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Australia will host military operations with India, Japan, and the US in the \u201cMalabar\u201d exercises off the coast of Perth in August and has invited India to join the Talisman Sabre exercises later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201c\u2018India a top-tier security partner, open Indo-Pacific is our need: Australia PM\u201d published in Indian Express on 10th March 2023. What is the News? The Australian Prime Minister is on a visit to India. About India-Australia Cooperation in different sectors Economic cooperation: The Economic Cooperation Trade Agreement&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-a-top-tier-security-partner-open-indo-pacific-is-our-need-australia-pm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India a top-tier security partner, open Indo-Pacific is our need: Australia PM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-230386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704022444},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}