January 20, 2022
The Quad Question: Will America's Pacific Partners Unite Against China?
The Quad is made up of India, Australia, Japan, and the United States.
by James Holmes
Here's What to Remember: As China’s capabilities are expanding at a prodigious rate, this escalation has set a dangerous cycle in motion.
Whither the “Quad”? Is the Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—a loose grouping of likeminded Indo-Pacific nations—a military coalition in the making?
Maybe—but how tight that fellowship becomes is largely up to Communist China, the provocateur that brought disparate partners together in the first place.
The Quad is made up of India, Australia, Japan, and the United States. The United States acts as the hub of this consortium. It shares close and longstanding bilateral alliances with two of the members, Japan and Australia, providing a durable basis for tripartite cooperation in East and South Asia. The other spoke is flimsier. How India will relate to the Quad is the real question.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/quad-question-will-americas-pacific-partners-unite-against-china-199464
