United States President Joe Biden plans to meet leaders of three “Quad” countries – India, Japan and Australia – in a virtual summit this ...
United States President Joe Biden plans to meet leaders of three “Quad” countries – India, Japan and Australia – in a virtual summit this month, Axios reported on Friday. The meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
This will be the first-ever meeting of the four leaders. “This will become a feature of Indo-Pacific engagement,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Sydney on Friday, according to Bloomberg Quint. “It will be four leaders, four countries, working together constructively for the peace, prosperity and stability of the Indo-Pacific.” Morrison, however, did not give any details on the timing of the talks. The White House has not confirmed the upcoming meeting yet.
The “Quad” or Quadrilateral coalition, established in 2017, comprised of India, Japan, the United States and Australia. The bloc is meant to hold security dialogue among the four biggest democracies of the region.
Last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had participated in the third Quadrilateral Ministerial Meeting. During the summit, the leaders had pledged “to strongly oppose unilateral and forceful attempts to change the status quo in the context of the East and South China Sea”. The meeting took place in the backdrop of China’s military actions in the South China Sea and along the Line of Actual...
