Indian Foreign Minister Su Jaisheng, who attended the Raisina Dialogue via video on April 14, stressed that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is not an “Asian version of NATO”; nor is the Indo-Pacific strategic architecture to strengthen the Cold War, but to overcome it. Sugarson said that the NATO mentality has never been India’s.
The Raisina Dialogue is an important platform for security dialogue in the Indo-Pacific region. During the dialogue, S. Jaishankar emphasized that the Indo-Pacific Strategic Architecture is a review of history and a reflection of a more modern world, which is meant to overcome the Cold War, not reinforce it. He hopes that all contemporary foreign policy practitioners will see it this way.
Central News Agency reported that Su Jiesheng said the Quadripartite Security Dialogue is not a security alliance or an “Asian version of NATO”. So far, the Quadripartite Security Dialogue has addressed 10 broad topics, including vaccine cooperation, higher education and student mobility, climate action, humanitarian relief and disaster relief, emerging technologies, resilient supply chains, semiconductors, disinformation, counter-terrorism and maritime security.
He stressed that the above list of topics will tell the outside world the thoughts and purposes of the four member countries of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which have come together to try to find ways to work for their national, regional and global interests.
He stressed that as the world changes, India is now aligning itself with like-minded and cooperative countries, and this is so because multilateralism is not working as it used to. As a result, the world is moving toward a grouping of countries seeking to cooperate, and that is the direction in which the world is changing.
Speaking of the Indo-Pacific strategy and cooperation with democracies such as India, French Foreign Minister Le Drian, who is visiting India, said, “We have a common will to cooperate and get along well, not only because we have some common interests or common concerns, but also because we share democratic values and we all abide by rules and laws. More importantly, we want to work together.”
France has been actively involved in the Indo-Pacific strategy in recent years, and recently led a military exercise with the four countries of the Quadripartite Security Dialogue in the Bay of Bengal.
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