It will send more warships and join drills with allies as it keeps an eye on an 'enormous' China military build-up. Read more at straitstimes.com.
General Eberhard Zorn told Reuters the Bundeswehr planned on sending troops to participate in training exercises in Australia next year, while the navy would send a fleet of several more ships to the region in 2024.
Germany has historically been more timid in its security policy than its allies due to its role in two world wars, focusing more on trade in its international relations - with China's rapid economic expansion driving its own growth and the country becoming its top trade partner in 2016. In 2020, Berlin published a new Indo-Pacific strategy with a focus on strengthening alliances with democracies in the region, marking a turning point. Then German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in February pledged a dramatic hike in spending on the military after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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