The U.S. authorities announced Thursday that they will hold quadrilateral talks with Australia, India and Japan. In a sign of the new U.S. President Joe Biden‘s decision to continue the “Quadruple Alliance” strategy against Beijing, despite repeated warnings from Beijing, the State Department said.
The State Department said Secretary of State John Blinken will hold talks with the foreign ministers of Australia, India and Japan on the new crown Epidemic and climate change. A State Department spokesman said the talks are critical to the Quadruple Alliance’s efforts to build a peaceful, open and free Indo-Pacific region and to meet the challenges they face together.
The four-nation alliance was formed in 2007 and was strongly promoted by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the hope that the four countries would work together to defend themselves against an increasingly ambitious China. In November last year, the four countries held a large-scale joint maritime exercise in the Bay of Bengal.
In early October last year, the Tokyo meeting of foreign ministers from the U.S., Japan, India and Australia agreed to join forces to address the Chinese challenge, and the then-new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said at a meeting with the foreign ministers of the “Quadruple Alliance” that a “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy to address China’s growing brutality was increasingly important in the face of the challenge of the new epidemic.
The Chinese official media ‘Global Times’ recently warned US President Joe Biden that the continuation of the “Quadruple Alliance” strategy would be a “serious strategic mistake”, warning that attempts to limit Beijing’s influence would It warned that attempts to limit Beijing’s influence would risk “serious strategic confrontation.
Biden’s national security adviser, Sullivan, made clear in late January that he would continue the Trump administration’s security strategy to some extent, saying that China is trying to show that the Chinese model is better than the U.S. model, and that it would be more effective for the United States and its democratic friends to work together to deal with China. The United States should strengthen its own democratic institutions and let China “suffer the consequences” of its “belligerent” posture.
Sullivan also praised the Trump Administration for continuing the Quadruple Alliance, which the new administration will “maintain and develop.
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