Quad & The China Threat: Shared Vision Or Out Of Focus With Attention On Ukraine?

NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Navdeep Suri, India’s Former High Commissioner to Australia, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and Author and Salvatore Babones, Adjunct Scholar, Centre for Independent Studies(CISOZ), Associate Professor, Sydney University and Author in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi.

The panel discusses the fourth Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Melbourne, the evolution, raison d’etre and path the group is heading towards, its ‘shared vision’, “commitment to an open Indo-Pacific free of coercion”, the China threat, the impact on Beijing’s aggression, India, Japan, Australia and U.S. interests, bilateral partnerships among its members, ASEAN and East Asian countries’ view of the grouping, how the current tension in and around Ukraine impacts the Quad and the Russia-China partnership.