A video summit of the U.S.-Japan-Australia-India “Quadrilateral Alliance” will be held this Friday. White House spokesman Pasaki said Tuesday that President Joe Biden will hold an online summit with the leaders of Japan, India and Australia on the 12th, which is the first leaders’ summit of the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue” (Quad) composed of the United States, Japan, India and Australia to deal with the Chinese challenge.
AFP news, after Canada, Mexico following the G7 summit, this is one of the first summits Biden attended, aimed at strengthening relations between the United States and traditional allies. Pasaki said the summit showed the importance Biden attaches to U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
Pasaki said she expects the summit to discuss a range of issues facing the international community, “from the threat of the New coronavirus outbreak to economic cooperation, but also the climate crisis.”
The Indian foreign ministry said the leaders will discuss “regional and global issues of common interest and specific areas of common cooperation” to maintain freedom and openness in the Indo-Pacific region.
The summit will also discuss supply chains, emerging and critical technologies, maritime security and climate change, the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement.
The U.S. looks to cement ties with key regional allies as China takes an increasingly assertive foreign policy stance in the Indo-Pacific region and elsewhere in the world.
India previously called on members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue to invest in their vaccine capacity to counter China’s expanding vaccine diplomacy.
India said the meeting will also discuss the ongoing campaign against the Epidemic and explore “opportunities for cooperation to ensure safe, equitable and affordable vaccines in the Indo-Pacific region.
Secretary of State Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin will also visit Japan and South Korea later this month, marking the first visits by top U.S. foreign and defense officials to Asian allies since Biden took office in January.
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