Today’s first summit with the US, Japan, and Australia
Supplied’Indosan’ vaccine to developing countries, refraining from mentioning security
Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar (from left), Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimit, Australian Foreign Minister Murrays Payne, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the four-party security conference (quad) held in Tokyo in October last year. Taking commemorative photos. Tokyo/AP Yonhap News
It is known that the passive change in India’s position has influenced the ability to hold the first summit meeting on the 12th of’Quad’, a four-party consultative group of the United States, Japan, India and Australia (Australia). It is analyzed that three countries, including the United States, Japan, and Australia, have made efforts in various fields so that India can actively move forward. “India has traditionally taken a position of non-alignment and has placed emphasis on equidistant diplomacy with each country including China,” he said. “But at this quad summit, India came to the fore,” reported on the 11th. It is reported that the four countries will agree at the summit on how to supply the Corona 19 vaccine to developing countries (developing countries) to contain China. The plan is to allow the United States, Japan, and Australia to lend low interest to developing countries such as Asia and Africa, and use the money to purchase vaccines made in India. It provides free Chinese vaccines to developing countries and checks China, which is expanding its influence, while providing economic benefits to India. The newspaper reported, “After the inauguration of the Joe Biden administration, the US promoted the quad summit, but the schedule could not be determined as India expressed confusion.” The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also released a statement on the 9th (local time), the first of the four countries to hold a summit meeting on the 12th to discuss corona countermeasures. In addition, it is pointed out that the three countries are not putting security to the fore on the agenda of the Quad Summit in order to consider India. In fact, Japanese Minister Kato Katsunobu officially announced the holding of the summit at a regular press conference on the 10th, and did not use the expressions’China’ and’security’. The newspaper said, “Because the quad took into account India’s position to avoid being seen as a public siege.” China is protesting the Quad as the’Indo-Pacific version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’. The quad was first held in New York, USA in September 2019, and it was agreed to be regularized at a meeting in Tokyo, Japan in October last year. It has been held in the presence of foreign ministers from four countries, and this is the first summit meeting. By Kim So-yeon, staff reporter