SouthAsiaSource
Sep 21, 2021
A reinvigorated Quad is becoming a key element of the new US administration’s Asia policy—just not in the way you expected.
By
Atman Trivedi
A reinvigorated Quad is becoming a key element of the new US administration’s Asia policy. Its members—Australia, India, Japan, and the US—convened virtually in March at the leader level. Amid multiple global crises, they wisely opted to focus on concrete ways to deliver for their people and the region. The grouping sought to prove that democracy still works, as President Biden likes to say. The Quad Leaders’ communique set the bar high: cooperation on “the defining challenges of our time.”