Will meet in-person in Australia in 2023
Three Prime Ministers respectively of Australia, India, and Japan and the President of the United States agreed to join hands at a summit of Quad for next five years’ target for the culmination of illegal fishing and maritime militias with increasing investment of over US $50 billion in infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific.
Leaders of the Australia, India, Japan and the US Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Joe Biden respectively gathered in Tokyo on Tuesday for a summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, also known as Quad to renew steadfast commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific that is inclusive and resilient.
It is a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.
As the US Administration taking Quad as key to a pivot toward placing more focus on the Indo-Pacific region to challenge China’s growing power which China has viewing the group as an “Asian NATO,”
But Australia, India, Japan, and the United States define Quad is for deepening economic, diplomatic and military ties.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended a summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue in Tokyo just a day after he was sworn in whereas Japanese PM Fumio Kishida is also the new face attending the Quad meet.
The four countries joined hands as a loose partnership after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to provide humanitarian and disaster assistance to the affected region. But later on in 2007 former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed the setup of a group in the name of Quad but it was not realized in a concrete way.
However, feeling China’s growing influence in the region the group was realized and almost a decade after Quad took shape in 2017.
Initially it was a group of four but South Korea has expressed interest in joining the Quad.
However, the four powers form “Quad-plus” expanding entering South Korea, New Zealand and Vietnam instead of giving entrance in the main club.
The leaders in person meeting discussed various issues from Peace and Stability to COVID-19 and Global Health Security, Infrastructure to Climate, Cybersecurity to Critical & Emerging Technologies, Space to Quad Fellowship.
Stressing on to regularize the Quad activities, the four leaders agreed to hold the next in-person summit in 2023 in Australia.
