While China has traditionally favoured the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Quad was viewed as an "Asian NATO;" Daniel Twining of the German Marshall Fund of the United States has written that the arrangement "could lead to military conflict," or could instead "lay an enduring foundation for peace" if China becomes a democratic leader in ...

After years of growing U.S.-China tensions, assertive Chinese behavior in the South and East China Seas, and repeated clashes between Chinese and Indian forces along their contested land border, the strategic calculus on China had changed in all of the Quad capitals.

2024年9月24日 · “The Quad,” as it has become known, has evolved into America’s major mechanism for facing China’s increasingly assertive posture in the Indo-Pacific. Together, the four Quad democracies...

2021年5月27日 · The Quad, composed of the United States, Australia, India, and Japan, is not a formal alliance. Still, the group has intensified its security and economic ties as tensions with China rise.

3 天之前 · One of the Quad's most prominent pledges—COVID-19 vaccine distribution—highlighted its shortcomings. While the Quad committed to supplying 1.2 billion doses by the end of 2022, only 290 million were delivered. In contrast, China provided 1.65 billion doses during the same period, and the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative delivered nearly 2 billion.

China has previously called out the Quad for its thinly veiled criticisms of China, with a Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson in July comparing the grouping to "exclusive clubs that...

2024年9月20日 · US President Joe Biden is scheduled to host a summit Sept. 21 of the leaders of “the Quad.” The informal grouping brings together the US, Japan, India and Australia in an alliance of democracies...

March 26, 2025; A Stroll Through the Indo-Pacific, the Most Important Region in the World. In this episode, we get into what’s driving the Indo-Pacific’s security dynamics, from China’s threats to Taiwan to AUKUS and the Quad to stability (or lack thereof) on the Ko...

3 天之前 · America’s four great adversaries — China, Iran, North Korea and Russia — are increasingly acting in unison to undercut US interests, the intelligence community revealed Tuesday.

2025年1月22日 · In a move sending a strong signal to China, foreign ministers from Quad countries -- India, Australia, Japan and the United States -- in a joint statement on Tuesday strongly opposed any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or coercion.