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The Japan‐India‐Australia “Alliance” as Key Agreement in the Indo‐PacificTrilateral Cooperation Agreement • September 17th, 2015
The first Japan‐India‐Australia Trilateral Dialogue was held in Delhi, on June 2015. The event was to be the first of its kind owing to the fact that the United States was not included. The circumstance leading to this exclusion is connected with the launch of a much‐needed security framework in the region, which has been the goal of the United States. In face of the shift in the balance of power between the United States and China, the United States seeks from both allies and friendly countries alike that they play a more active role in the Indo‐Pacific. But what, precisely, would such a trilateral cooperation be able to achieve with respect to maintaining security in the said region? The present paper argues that the tripartite cooperation tactics, namely, of information sharing, capacity building, and the demonstration of presence possess substantial potential for maintaining the balance of power in the East and South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific. There presentl
