Navies of the ‘Quad’ can swing together to tackle any threat in Indo-Pacific: Top Indian, US commanders
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The messaging about the Quad grouping of India, the US, Japan and Australia against a belligerent and expansionist China in the Indo-Pacific was clear.
PM Modi, US President Biden, Australia PM Morrison and Japan PM Suga - leaders of the four Quad nations.
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(This story originally appeared in on Apr 14, 2021)Top Indian and American military commanders on Wednesday said navies of the “Quad” countries could seamlessly swing into action for a joint military operation if the need arises to tackle a threat and ensure a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned the world is at risk of splintering between authoritarian regimes and liberal democracies, saying like-minded countries need to join together to push for freedom.
Mr Morrison hailed the first leaders-level meeting of the Quad group of nations last month as historic for bringing together four âgreat liberal democraciesâ to work on a âpositive and inclusive agenda for the Indo-Pacificâ. The four countries â Australia, India, Japan and the United States â view the strategic dialogue as central to its efforts to counter Chinaâs growing dominance in the region.
Scott Morrison has warned the world is at risk of splintering between democracies and authoritarian regimes.
Elaborating his point that Quad was not an Asian NATO, Jaishankar spelt out 10 subjects including vaccine collaboration and climate action that the grouping had discussed so far.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. | Joshua Roberts/Reuters
India, France and Australia on Wednesday underlined their common ground on the Indo-Pacific region days after Russia described the Quad grouping as an “Asian NATO”, reported
The Indian Express. The countries, however, differed on their position about the situation in Myanmar, where the military took over after a coup on February 1.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had used the term “Asian NATO” for the emerging alliances at a news conference with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Jaishankar in New Delhi on April 6, reported
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he Hindustan Times. Russian envoy Nikolay Kudashev had reiterated Moscow’s criticism, saying that the Quad was aimed at reviving Cold War-era structures.
US seeks greater but vaguely-defined role for India and other regional powers in Afghanistan
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US seeks greater but vaguely-defined role for India and other regional powers in Afghanistan
Chidanand Rajghatta / TNN / Updated: Apr 15, 2021, 21:05 IST
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WASHINGTON: Acknowledging that India among other countries in the region has a significant stake in Afghanistan, the Biden administration has pledged to ask regional nations to do more to support Kabul even as Washington packs up from the strife-torn country by September 11 after a failed 20-year effort to defeat the Taliban.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, on his way to Kabul following the announcement of the American pullout, said during a stopover at the NATO headquarters in Brussels that despite some differences there are some shared interests across a number of countries, whether it is Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and others, in not seeing