In October last year, at the residence of the Prime Minister in Tokyo, Japan, the heads of diplomatic relations from four countries on the Indo-Pacific coast are posing for a photo shoot ahead of the’Quad’ meeting, a security council. From left, Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaisankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australian Foreign Minister Murris Payne, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Tokyo = AP Yonhap News
Joe Biden, who declared the policy to maintain a strong line with China, is said to have initiated the first summit meeting with the four-nation security council’Quad’ to check China.
On the 7th, Japan’s Kyodo News Agency reported, citing sources from relevant countries, that the plan to open the first summit meeting of Quad, a consultative body involving four countries including the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, has recently begun.
According to the news agency, if the Quad Summit is concluded, cooperation for a’free and open India-Pacific’ is expected to become a major agenda. It is an agenda that focuses on China’s maritime advancement movement, which the Biden government perceives as its biggest competitor, and its response.
So far, no quad summit has been held. Only two meetings of foreign ministers were held in New York in September 2019 and in Tokyo, Japan in October last year.
The leading country is the United States. Kyodo reported that the Biden government is leading a quad summit with three countries to check China.
However, the prisoners analyzed that there is no possibility that the timing will be delayed than expected. This is because of the temperature difference between countries, and the Kyodo explained that India, which is a little farther away from the other three countries, is a variable in public policy. If the event was decided, the Kyodo predicted that China, which showed strong wary of the quad’s solidarity, would oppose it.
The quad, launched in 2019, is the definitive edition of the Trump administration’s China-checked India-Pacific policy. Former Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Vegan announced in August last year the Quad Plus initiative that added Korea, New Zealand, and Vietnam to four quad countries. The plan was to complete the siege of China, including other countries in the quads of four countries that faced China.
In recent years, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, a key chief of staff coordinating President Biden’s diplomatic and security initiatives, has shown a willingness to strengthen the quad. On the 29th of last month (local time), at a video seminar hosted by the American Peace Institute (USIP), he said, “We really want to take over (quad’s) form and mechanism and develop it further.”
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