New Australian duo

One of the top priorities for the two sides in the new level of cooperation is to strongly strengthen cooperation in politics, security, military and defense. A few days earlier, the Philippines and Australia conducted their first joint naval exercise in the East Sea.

This move by Manila and Canberra not only opens a new era of bilateral cooperation, but also has very special significance and impact on the region, as well as the development of relations between the Philippines and Australia with China.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during a meeting in Manila on September 8.

Despite some sporadic signs of detente, relations between Canberra and Beijing remain fundamentally rocky. Manila and Beijing have also recently been at odds over the situation in the South China Sea.

By upgrading their bilateral cooperation, Australia and the Philippines not only strongly promote existing bilateral cooperation and expand the scope of cooperation, but also deliberately strengthen coordination to deal with common and individual security challenges and threats. Both have done the same with the US and Japan. Both want to build a new pair of cards in terms of power and influence in all areas in the region.

The strategic partnership between Manila and Canberra complements the network of partnerships and strategic partnerships that each country has built in the Indo- Pacific region, promoting the quadrilateral cooperation framework between them with the US and Japan especially on political security in this region.

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