The quad meet is resolved to be held on this day. Foreign ministers of the Quad committee, the informal security forum comprising India, the US, Japan and Australia, are exacted to hold a much-awaited meeting in Tokyo on October 6 with the goal of hardening strategic cooperation and advance the goal of a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region. The meeting is supposed to be followed by consultations at the senior officials’ level in November.
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The meeting will discuss a tie-up among Quad countries in counter-terrorism, cyber and maritime security, development finance, humanitarian assistance and disaster response, according to South Block officials. The ministers are also required to discuss practical collaborations in developing advanced technologies including 5G and 5G-plus telecom standards as well as securing the sea lanes of communications in the Indo-Pacific. While Beijing is supposed to take intention at the four partners for seeking to target China at the meeting, there has been a sea change since the ministers met informally on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2019.
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The Quad ministerial comes at a time when the Donald Trump regime has made a U-turn on US policy towards China, which was conducted by the rapprochement policy tailored by Henry Kissinger 50 years ago under the Republican administration of Richard Nixon. The tough, new US policy towards Communist China was defined by US secretary of state Mike Pompeo in his Nixon Library address on July 24. The Indian relationship with China has taken a 180-degree turn since the Chennai summit on October 11-12, 2019, after the People’s Liberation Army’s aggression in eastern Ladakh in May.
