Aircraft carriers from four countries, including the United States, India, Japan, and Australia, participated in the training of Indian fighters in November last year, when aircraft carriers and ships from four countries were conducting the second joint training of the Malabar 2020 in the northern Arabian Sea. It is stopping on the deck of the house. Arabian Sea = AFP Yonhap News
The Japanese media including the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the 7th that the US administration Joe Biden is promoting the first’Quad’ online summit. Quad is a four-country security council to check China.
According to reports, the country leading the promotion of the event is the United States. Kyodo News Agency reported that the Joe Biden government decided to hold a summit meeting with three countries, Japan, Australia, and India, and began preparations for this.
The main agenda is expected to be China’s countermeasures to advance into the ocean and human rights in China. Kyodo predicted that if the Quad Summit is concluded, cooperation measures for realizing a’free and open India-Pacific’ will be discussed. ) It was expected that there would be an exchange of opinions on measures.
The timing may be a little late. India, which is slightly different from the other three countries, is a variable in its policy toward China. The Sankei Shimbun quoted Japanese government officials, saying, “Japan and Australia are positive, so if the Indian government agrees, the summit will come true.”
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. When the summit is held, it is clear that China will protest. The holding of the quad summit, Yomiuri interpreted, was to show the Biden government’s policy to counter China through cooperation with countries that share basic values of freedom and democracy.
The quad, launched in 2019, is the definitive edition of the Donald Trump administration’s China-checked India-Pacific policy. Former Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegan also unveiled the’Quad Plus’ initiative that added three countries including Korea, New Zealand, and Vietnam to four quad countries last August. The plan was to complete the siege of China, including other countries in the quad of four countries.
In recent years, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, a key chief of staff coordinating President Biden’s diplomatic and security initiatives, has also demonstrated his willingness to strengthen the quad. On the 29th of last month (local time), at a video seminar hosted by the American Peace Research Institute (USIP), he said, “We really want to take over (quad’s) form and mechanism and develop it further.”
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