Australia is investing billions in military

The Australian government is planning to invest heavily in the purchase include frigates, drones, combat aircraft and submarines.

Spending on Defence rise over the next decade with converted 19 billion, said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Thursday.

The plan was developed according to the prime minister in view of the changing security situation in the region. He was referring, inter alia, on the economic and military rise of China. That country has border disputes with several countries in the region. For example, China claims almost the entire South China Sea.

,, The government will deepen our important relationship with China in the field of defense and widen, but also realizes that our strategic interests may differ in relation to certain regional and global security issues, '' said Minister Marise Payne (Defence).