Category: quad

QUAD to Compete With China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

NEW DELHI—The QUAD nations—United States, India, Australia, and Japan—are  pushing back against the Chinese regime’s vaccine diplomacy. At the QUAD’s first leadership summit on March 12 the nations announced will be launching a partnership to end the pandemic, expand manufacturing with facilities in India and provide assistance to the countries in the larger Indo-Pacific region…


Quad to Compete With China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Indo-Pacific

NEW DELHI—The Quad nations—United States, India, Australia, and Japan—are pushing back against the Chinese regime’s vaccine diplomacy. At the first leadership summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue on March 12, the nations announced a partnership to end the pandemic, expand vaccine manufacturing with facilities in India, and provide assistance to the countries in the larger…


QUAD Summit Discusses Rare Earth Supply Chain Independent of China

NEW DELHI—The QUAD nations, the United States, India, Japan, and Australia met for their first leadership-level summit on March 12 and decided to convene a Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group with an aim among other things to convene dialogues on critical technology supply chains. Critical technology supply chains indispensably rely on rare earth metals,…


China Insider: Quad Countries Counter China’s Vaccine Diplomacy

As one of the COVID-19 vaccine producers in the world, China is trying to compete with the West for political and economic influence. On March 12, the four ‘Quad’ countries—India, Japan, the United States, and Australia, agreed to commit to manufacturing one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine for distribution in Asia. On the next day,…


US and Asian Allies Launch Partnership to Supply Billions of Vaccines in Indo-Pacific

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden held his first multilateral summit on Friday with the leaders of Japan, India, and Australia to launch a partnership for the distribution of at least a billion doses of vaccines in Asia to counter China’s influence in the region. Four leaders made a joint commitment to bring together Indian manufacturing, U.S. technology, Japanese and American…


Biden to Hold First Summit With Leaders of ‘Quad’ to Counter China

WASHINGTON–President Joe Biden is set to hold his first summit on Friday with the leaders of Japan, India, and Australia to step up the game on vaccine distribution in the Indo-Pacific to counter China’s influence in the region. The informal alliance called the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or “Quad” that consists of the United States, India, Japan,…


Biden Holds First Summit With Leaders of the ‘Quad’ to Counter China

WASHINGTON–President Joe Biden is holding his first summit on Friday with the leaders of Japan, India, and Australia to step up the game on vaccine distribution in the Indo-Pacific to counter China’s influence in the region. The informal alliance called the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or “Quad” that consists of the United States, India, Japan, and Australia…


Top Defense and State Dept. Officials Will Travel to Japan and Korea

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will meet with officials in Japan and South Korea in March in an effort to advance the Biden administration’s Indo-pacific strategy, against the backdrop of an increasingly hostile China. Austin will join Blinken on March 16–17, in Japan for the U.S./Japan Security…


US, Japan, Australia, India Need to Push Back Against CCP: Think Tank

The United States, Japan, Australia, and India need to comprehensively push back against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Indo-Pacific region, a leading think tank says. Cleo Paskal of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told The Epoch Times at the Conservative Political Action Conference that the CCP’s goal is to be “number one in…


Australian Farmers Back New Quad Bike Safety Rules

Australia’s farmers have offered strong support for federal government moves to improve the safety of ATVs or quad bikes, backing new laws to fit rollover bars amid a “horrific” death and injury toll. The National Farmers Federation believes the devices, which will become mandatory on all new bikes from October, will help save lives. This…