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Capabilities, regional engagement and military operations. ultimately were cooperating all fronts. tomorrow secretary austin and minister dutton will join secretary state blinken and the minister of australia of foreign affairs maurice payne for two plus two meeting at the state department. also, this week, the navy completed a new milestone. the first aerial refuelling of an f-35 lightning craft but an unmanned platform on monday. the milestone is significant because unmanned tanking capabiliti...

Your thoughts. >> you may have seen last night, the dprk fired two short range missiles to the sea of japan. theyre in violation with many security council resolutions. this highlights their elicit weapons program. i think you saw the statement earlier today about that. this morning secretary austin welcomed the australian minister for defense, peeter dutton here to the pentagon. were proud to stand alongside our australian allies for our shared interests in the endo pacific region. its an unbre...

Abraham, that the kinds of aggressive activities that were seeing out of china and the indopacific region is causing all of us, the international community, not just the united states to make sure that were focused on that behavior and making sure as i mentioned in my opening statement that were all not only committed by helping to further what we call free and open indopacific. >> this morning defense minister dutton said the situation in the indopacific was deteriorating. do you agree with tha...

Also, can you address a little bit about the evolution of the parter? ship, the training and fighting together with australia. >> its been a long history that weve had with australia. you know that. theres a whole corridor here in the pentagon dedicated to our relationship with australia and new zealand as well. theyre a key ally and partner in the indopacific region. they have in the past hosted rotational deployments of u.s. troops, marines specifically and of course we operate routinely with ...