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Chinese commentators in the English daily Global Times, said Australia and Japan have tied themselves to America’s ‘anti-China chariot’, while India’s cooperation with the US, unlike the other two, was done without undermining its strategic independence.
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar succeed in keeping the Quad’s focus on the issues which its leaders took up in March summit, and include more such subjects for the common good, they would have succeeded in insulating it from the storm unleashed by the AUKUS
The members of the ‘Quadrilateral Security Dialogue’ will meet in the US this week for their first in-person discussions. Topping the packed agenda will be discussions on how to to counter China.
It is bewildering that in India it is taken for granted in all the public discourse about the first Quad summit that it is all about China when Modi made it plain that the Quad’s role under the present global circumstances is about everything else.
Post COVID-19, there is urgency to deal with the looming presence of China. While US is making Beijing’s containment its top priority, India, buoyed by the PLA pull back from Ladakh, is strengthening its naval alliances in the region
