Amid the growing tensions between the US and China, the United States is planning to hold high-level talks with its “Quad” security partners i.e. India, Australia, and Japan in September and October, President Trump’s national security adviser said.
The US NSA told the Atlantic Council think-tank he would probably meet his “Quad” security partners in Hawaii in the month of October, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet his counterparts in September and October.
For the uninitiated, the grouping of 4 democracies – India, US, Australia, and Japan – is known as the “Quadrilateral security dialogue” or “Quad”. It was first mooted by Japanese PM Shinzo Abe in 2007.
It has been recently revived and is being viewed as a response to growing Chinese economic as well as a military power.
