Foreign ministers from the United States, India, Japan, and Australia will meet in New Delhi for three days to address Indo-Pacific security, energy supplies, and emerging technologies. China’s continued testing of geopolitical and security boundaries in the region provides a key backdrop. The meeting also faces pressure from issues not formally on the agenda, including how to keep the Quad alliance alive and relevant as geopolitical conditions worsen and China becomes more assertive. The Quad has not held a national leaders meeting since 2024, when President Joe Biden hosted counterparts. India was expected to host the next annual meeting in 2025, but it did not occur amid tensions tied to President Donald Trump’s tariffs and related diplomatic frictions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Foreign ministers from the US, India, Japan and Australia — the four nations that make up the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as the Quad — are set to meet in New Delhi over three days from Sunday to discuss Indo-Pacific security, energy supplies and emerging technologies. The meeting comes as China continues to test geopolitical and security boundaries in the region. But it's another issue, which is not on the agenda, that looms large over the gathering: how to keep the alliance alive and relevant in an ever more challenging geopolitical landscape and an increasingly assertive China."
"The Quad, which unites the four nations in seeking a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), has not had a meeting of national leaders since 2024, when then-President Joe Biden hosted his counterparts in Wilmington, Delaware. India was meant to host the next annual meeting in the latter part of 2025, but that never materialized amid tensions between India and the new administration of President Donald Trump. Trump has imposed tariffs and punitive duties on Indian imports to the US, straining ties with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
"The US president further antagonized New Delhi by claiming to have mediated a settlement to border clashes between India and Pakistan in May last year. The US president was also critical of India purchasing Russian military equipment. One year on, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is heading the US delegation to India, is tasked with smoothing ruffled diplomatic feathers. With Trump's attention apparently focused on the war in the Middle East and, potentially, Cuba, Rubio's mission could be a challenging one."
"“The US, Japan and Australia already had an important and effective trilateral security arrangement, but the whole purpose of the Quad was to bring India in as another power to give it more influence and reach,” said James Brown, a profess"
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