Indonesia<\/a> and Australia, and Australia\u2019s wider network of defence and trade arrangements, illustrate a shift toward bloc-based cooperation and denser geopolitical \u2018hedgerows\u2019 in security and economic relations.<\/p>\nRegional defence ties deepen and diversify<\/h2>\n
“To underline this point, Indonesia and Australia have just signed a common security pact.”<\/p>\n
“Though it falls short of a mutualdefence pact, the agreement will see a significant step-up in military cooperation that highlights the strategic re-evaluation that is underway across the Indo-Pacific.”<\/p>\n
“For its part, Australia has been busily upgrading its diplomatic and security ties in the region for several years now.”<\/p>\n
“Major agreements have recently been signed with Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Timor-Leste, while the AUKUS pact with the United States and the UK will soon see the Henderson shipyard in Western Australia used for maintenance and sustainment of nuclear submarines.”<\/p>\n
“The pattern of freer trade for friends and restricted trade elsewhere is a template that is now being repeated globally as the world coalesces into interest blocs with geopolitical hedgerows erected in between.”<\/p>\n
(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin Picton at RaboResearch describes a growing Indo-Pacific arms race and geopolitical hedging as countries adjust security and trade ties in response to a more assertive China. Recent agreements between Indonesia and Australia, and Australia\u2019s wider network of defence and trade arrangements, illustrate a shift toward bloc-based cooperation and denser geopolitical \u2018hedgerows\u2019 in security and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-419253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419256,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419253\/revisions\/419256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}