{"id":33296,"date":"2018-10-30T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33296"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:13:25","slug":"india-australia-call-for-open-asia%c2%ad-pacific-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-australia-call-for-open-asia%c2%ad-pacific-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"India,\u00a0Australia\u00a0call\u00a0for \u2018open\u2019\u00a0Asia\u00ad Pacific\u00a0zone:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-australia-call-for-open-asia-pacific-zone\/article21551158.ece\"><strong>India,\u00a0Australia\u00a0call\u00a0for \u2018open\u2019\u00a0Asia\u00ad Pacific\u00a0zone<\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuing with the strategic bilateral discussion, Australia and India on Tuesday discussed the need to maintain the Asia-Pacific region as a \u201cfree\u201d and \u201copen\u201d zone under the \u201c2+2\u201d dialogue model which includes the foreign and defence secretaries of both sides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Both sides call for the need to maintain the region as a \u2018free\u2019 and \u2018open\u2019 zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The discussion was the first meeting of this level since the two sides participated in the quadrilateral discussion for a new strategic partnership targeting the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom of navigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201c2+2\u201d dialogue was held between Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra and their Australian counterparts Frances Adamson and Greg Moriarty<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue indicated that the focus remains on freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, where China has been reclaiming land for infrastructure, boosting its maritime influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India,\u00a0Australia\u00a0call\u00a0for \u2018open\u2019\u00a0Asia\u00ad Pacific\u00a0zone: Context Continuing with the strategic bilateral discussion, Australia and India on Tuesday discussed the need to maintain the Asia-Pacific region as a \u201cfree\u201d and \u201copen\u201d zone under the \u201c2+2\u201d dialogue model which includes the foreign and defence secretaries of both sides. Both sides call for the need to maintain the region as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-australia-call-for-open-asia%c2%ad-pacific-zone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India,\u00a0Australia\u00a0call\u00a0for \u2018open\u2019\u00a0Asia\u00ad Pacific\u00a0zone:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704654564},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}