QUAD SUMMIT: A NEW NARRATIVE
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QUAD SUMMIT: A NEW NARRATIVE
The first summit of the Quad involving India, Australia, Japan and the United States has improved its long-term political prospects. Even as China has dismissed the Quad as the ‘Asian NATO’, the 4 leaders have made it clear that it is neither a military alliance nor an anti-China coalition. The study underscores a commitment for an open Indo-Pacific, cooperation on Covid vaccine production and on climate change. It argues that it is a strategic boost for India; that it could compromise India’s strategic autonomy and rela-tions with BRICS; cautions on a China focus; India’s insistence on an inclusive approach; a new ‘minilateral’ taking shape; that militarism is in the air in the Indo-Pacific; that Quad cannot function as a goodwill club of democracies; view that the joint statement is ‘tantamount to the declaration of the New Cold War between the US and its allies and China’; and that outcomes merit close attention for at least five reasons.
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