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Blinken Australia Trip Puts Asia Back In Focus

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  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Australia today meeting with QUAD representatives from Australia, Japan, and India. Meetings are expected to focus on curtailing the influence of China in the region.
  • The trip will reposition US foreign policy back to Asia. The US is particularly concerned about the 'no limits strategic partnership' between China and Russia which was ratified last week.
  • Blinken will be hoping to convince Delhi to support Washington’s foreign policy toward China and Russia. The US might suspect that the ongoing deterioration of bilateral relations between Delhi and Beijing can stimulate greater material support for the US ‘pivot to the east’.
  • There has also been a recent cooling of relations between traditionally close India and Russia which the US may be hoping to exploit. There have been calls within India to reduce dependency on Russian trade in light of the Ukraine crisis, so an escalation of tensions in Ukraine may have Delhi looking to firm up alternative bilateral relationships.
  • Blinken is also expected to get assurances from Australia to assist in supplying Europe will LNG.
  • The trip comes as US has just approved the sale of a USD$100 million package of equipment and services to Taiwan to ‘sustain, maintain, and improve’ Taiwan’s Patriot missile defence system.
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