“India’s Indo-Pacific Defense Diplomacy Skyrockets With Massive Deals With US, Australia & ASEAN”, Eur Asia Times, November 05, 2025
“The 12th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) and the ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur this year produced a mix of reaffirmations of regional security principles, practical cooperation initiatives, and a flurry of high-level bilateral agreements and understandings that together underscore Southeast Asia’s continuing centrality in the Indo-Pacific security architecture.
At the multilateral level, the ADMM/ADMM-Plus sequence focused on common challenges such as maritime stability, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), counter-terrorism, and cooperative mechanisms to avoid miscalculation in the maritime domain, while emphasising inclusive, rules-based approaches to preserve ASEAN centrality.
The meetings also served as the platform where defence ministers and senior officials from ASEAN and the “Plus” partner countries (including India, the United States, China, Japan, Australia, Russia, South Korea, and New Zealand) exchanged assessments on rising regional tensions and explored practical mechanisms for crisis communications, exercises, and capacity building……..”
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