AUSTRALIA AND US JOIN HANDS FOR DEFENSE COLLABORATION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA BUT AUSTRALIA VOWED NOT TO PATROL IN DISPUTED AREA

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• Australia has vowed to expand defense collaboration with the US in the South China Sea – yet avoided making a particular commitment to giving a free hand in navigational operations in the region despite America pressurizing for the same.

The two partners have additionally chosen to put a working group across the region fencing the state-owned misinformation across the Indo-P....