A significant maritime military exercise, code-named "Malabar", was being carried out in the Bay of Bengal, more than 10,000 kilometers away. A Brief History of the Malabar Military Exercise The Malabar military exercise originated in 1992 and was initially a bilateral platform for joint exercises between India and the United States. However, after India's public nuclear test explosion in 1998, the
United States suspended this platform in order bulk sms service to sanction India, and resumed this mechanism in 2002 due to strategic counter-terrorism considerations. Most of the exercises are held in the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, but until 2020, they will be held intermittently in the Arabian Sea, the sea off Japan, the Philippine Sea and other places. India and the United States are ex officio members. In 2007, they expanded to invite Australia and Japan, but they were terminated due to many reasons. After that, Japan became a regular member in 2014, and Australia joined again this year (2020) . In 2007, India and Japan joined and ended without success Why did India and the United States expand the scale of the exercise to include Japan and Australia in 2007? Most people
Attribute the participation of Japan and Australia that year to the sidelines meetings between officials from India, the United States, Japan and Australia at the ASEAN Regional Forum that year. But in fact, the strategic dialogue mechanism between the foreign ministers of the United States, Japan and Australia was established in 2006, and the sub-minister level was launched in 2002. India, on the other hand, established a sub-ministerial strategic dialogue with the three countries in May 2006. In addition, the then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was also actively promoting the diplomatic strategic concept of the "Arc of Freedom and Prosperity", advocating cooperation between Japan and India, and uniting the United States and Australia to break through the limitations of geographical frameworks and jointly build a link between the