Category: The Quad

Is the Quad a Military Alliance? Should It Be?

Commentary The Quad is the Quadrilateral Security Dialog between the United States, Australia, Japan, and India. The group has been denounced by Beijing as “a sinister gang” and an incipient Asian NATO. The latter term has often been applied to it in the media. Is the Quad a military alliance in the making? Should it…


China Calls On Bangladesh to Reject US-led ‘Bloc Politics’

China has called on Bangladesh to “uphold independence” and reject “bloc politics,” particularly those led by the United States that Beijing characterized as U.S. “centrism and exceptionalism.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement on June 2 following a meeting between Director-General of the Department of Asian Affairs Liu Jinsong and Bangladesh’s Ambassador to China…


Chinese Regime Leader Xi Jinping Gives Notice to Asia–Pacific in Criticism Against US

Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping has issued a warning to U.S.-friendly nations in the Asia–Pacific, in a thinly-veiled swipe against the formation of a Washington-led alliance against communism, during a prerecorded video address to the APEC summit on Nov. 11. “Attempts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on geopolitical grounds are bound to…


Quad Leaders Meet Amid Concerns Over Communist China Influence

Leaders of the United States, Australia, India, and Japan, released a lengthy joint statement on Friday declaring their commitment to a “free and open Indo-Pacific” that is “unaudited by coercion” amid continued efforts from communist China to wrestle influence over the globe. The statement from leaders of “the Quad,” or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, was released…


Quad Leaders Signal Commitment to a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ Amid Concerns Over Communist China Influence

Leaders of the United States, Australia, India, and Japan, released a lengthy joint statement on Friday, in part declaring their commitment to a “free and open Indo-Pacific” that is “undaunted by coercion” amid continued efforts from communist China to wrestle influence over the globe. The statement from leaders of “the Quad,” or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue,…


Quad Leaders Commit to a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ Amid Concerns Over China Influence

Leaders of the United States, Australia, India, and Japan, released a lengthy joint statement on Friday, in part declaring their commitment to a “free and open Indo-Pacific” that is “undaunted by coercion” amid continued efforts from communist China to wrestle influence over the globe. The statement from leaders of “the Quad,” or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue,…


China Threat Will Unify Indo-Pacific Region post-India COVID Crisis, Experts Say

Experts said that U.S. support and China’s behavior during the current Indian COVID crisis would make the security alliance of the Quad (U.S., Australia, Japan, and India) more robust. Although unnamed in the March Quad summit (The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) joint statement, the China threat would bind the geopolitical union in the long run. Political…