{"id":217794,"date":"2023-06-06T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=217794"},"modified":"2023-06-06T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:55:00","slug":"germany-indonesia-agree-to-strengthen-defense-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/06\/germany-indonesia-agree-to-strengthen-defense-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany, Indonesia agree to strengthen defense ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) \u2014 Germany and Indonesia agreed on Monday to strengthen their defense cooperation and plan a joint military exercise with other countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius discussed the growing ties in a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart, Prabowo Subianto, in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe talked about the possibility of having a deal about some submarines. We were talking about the two minesweepers, which are already on the way to Indonesia,\u201d Pistorius said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Germany and Indonesia are also planning a joint military exercise with other regional partners, but no details have been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both ministers attended the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia\u2019s annual defense and security forum, where U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday criticized China\u2019s \u201cbullying or coercion\u201d in the Indo-Pacific region, including tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">China\u2019s Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu said at the conference that the U.S. has been \u201cdeceiving and exploiting\u201d Asia-Pacific nations to advance its own self-interests to preserve \u201cits dominant position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) \u2014 Germany and Indonesia agreed on Monday to strengthen their defense cooperation and plan a joint military exercise with other countries in the region. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius discussed the growing ties in a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart, Prabowo Subianto, in Jakarta. \u201cWe talked about the possibility of having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}