NEW DELHI: India and Australia on Thursday decided to further strengthen their bilateral defence collaboration and military interoperability, inked three key pacts and expressed faith in the “strategic convergence” among the `Quad’ countries, amid the Trump administration signalling that the US may no longer be as invested in its Indo-Pacific strategy to counter China as before. The three agreements signed during the delegation-level meeting between defence minister Rajnath Singh and his Australian counterpart Richard Marles in Canberra were on sharing of classified information, mutual submarine search and rescue cooperation, and establishment of joint staff talks. Moreover, the two countries are also seeking to conclude a joint maritime security collaboration roadmap as well as ink a

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