India, Australia making up for lost time

With the "uranium irritant" out of the way, India and Australia are scaling up defence and security ties. Australia may rejoin the high-profile Malabar naval exercises with India, the US and Japan in the near future as well as working in tandem on the South China Sea.Stephen Smith, Australia's defence minister, on a three-day visit to India soon after the ruling Labour party voted to overturn the ban on selling uranium to India, told journalists, "I have no doubt that the uranium decision has

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