Pete Hegseth to meet with Australian counterpart with focus on Indo-Pacific

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will meet with Australia’s minister of defense, Richard Marles, on Friday, marking Hegseth’s first meeting with a foreign counterpart at The Pentagon.

Marles, who serves as the deputy prime minister and defense minister, will travel to Washington to meet with officials from the Trump administration for the first time in person. The Australian defense ministry has announced the meeting, but the Pentagon has not yet done so.

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