This is the first meeting between the presidents of the four-member quad and the four countries will be witnessing intense tensions with China over various issues.
“It has been confirmed that a quad meeting on Friday is likely to take place soon,” the source said.
The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is an informal strategic forum for the four nations involved and provides semi-regular summits and information.
Morrison previewed the talks at a news conference last week.
“The quad is very central to the United States’ and our thinking about the area,” Morrison said.
“This will be a feature of the Indo-Pacific alliance. But it will not be a big secretariat and a big bureaucracy with such things. It will work constructively with the leaders of the four countries for peace, prosperity and stability.” Good for that, “said the Australian Prime Minister.
Joint military exercise
On the military side of the quad, cooperation has increased over the past year through bilateral agreements between quad partners and joint military exercises.
Last November, Australia joined the annual Malabar exercise with the US, Japan and India. Conducted annually since 1992. The maneuver has increased in size and complexity in recent years for the Navy’s description of “a variety of threats to maritime security in the Indo-Asia Pacific.”
Australia The partnership of Australia means that all four members of the quad participated in the exercise for the first time since 2007.
All four have seen turbulent relations with China in recent times.
Indian and Chinese troops were involved in a military clash in the Himalayas in June on the actual border between the two countries – the Line of Actual Control, which killed soldiers on both sides after a hand-to-hand battle.
Relations between Beijing and New Delhi have since cooled, with trade and technical disputes looming.
The U.S., meanwhile, has stepped up its naval and air operations in the South China Sea, while pushing back claims over Beijing’s vast waterways. It has also increased support for self-governing Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its sovereign territory.
Asia and China have been the main focus of foreign policy since the Biden administration took office on January 20.
This will be the first international trip by Biden cabinet officials since the inauguration of the American president.
The Japanese leader is expected to visit Washington
Kato said in a daily press briefing on Monday that a Japan-US summit would take place, but no date and details have been set.
If confirmed, Suga will be the first international leader to visit the White House under Biden’s administration.
Blinken called US relations with Beijing “the biggest geographical test of the 21st century” this month. He said China needs to be linked to a position of strength that can only be done together with allies and partners.
“China is the only country that seriously challenges a stable and open international system with economic, diplomatic, military and technological strength – all the rules, values and relations that the world wants to function the way we want,” said Blinken Biden. Said in a speech about strategy.
CNN’s Junko Ogura contributed to the report.
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