Phantasmal (05-24-2022), signalmankenneth (05-24-2022)
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China is alarmed by the Quad. But its threats are driving the group closer together
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, colloquially the Quad, is a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.
When the United States, Japan, Australia and India first resuscitated their informal dialogue from a decade-long hiatus in late 2017, China was confident it would soon fail.
More than four years on, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue -- better known as "the Quad" -- is far from dissipating. Instead, it has only grown in momentum, profile and clout.
Convened around the mantra of promoting a "free and open Indo-Pacific," the four countries have held two naval exercises since 2020. Their leaders have assembled three times since last year -- including an in-person summit at the White House.
On Tuesday, the four leaders will meet face to face again in Tokyo. Their summit will be a highlight of Joe Biden's first trip to Asia as the US President, as he seeks to strengthen alliances and partnerships to counter China's growing influence in the region.
The renewed activity has seen China's initial scorn turn into alarm, with Beijing viewing the grouping as part of Washington's attempt to encircle the country with strategic and military allies. Wang, the foreign minister, has decried the grouping as an "Indo-Pacific NATO," accusing it of "trumpeting the Cold War mentality" and "stoking geopolitical rivalry."
That concern has only grown since the Ukraine crisis. Beijing's backing of Moscow has further damaged its global image, leaving it more isolated on the world stage. And that is not helped by China's insistence on a zero-Covid policy, in which stringent border restrictions are cutting the country off from a world that has largely moved on from the pandemic.
While Biden travels the world to reinforce ties, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping hasn't left China in 25 months. Biden's latest flurry of diplomacy, with stops in South Korea and Japan, has particularly irked Beijing.
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Phantasmal (05-24-2022), signalmankenneth (05-24-2022)
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
What the dim witted Trump never understood is that authoritarianism is on the ascent, and the world's democracies need to be united to challenge this threat.
Phantasmal (05-24-2022)
being a democracy is no inherent power. The one good things about "authoritarianism"
( one man/party rule) is a cohesive policy over time
Like Biden comes in and NEEDLESSLY overturns everything Trump did and leaves us energy dependent
no viable trade deal with China, and decommissioning ships ( the border as well)
The Quad is security pact, and trying to make it into an economic block isn't going to work
China will pick them off 1 by one
Still getting India into a western security alliance is a big deal
Rune (05-24-2022)
my preference is American democracy as a functioning government -we dont do that much anymore
Biden is guilty as all hell on this - but the trend is to overturn previous policy
That said I dont want authoritarianism,but it does have that going for it
as to the "Indo-Pacific Trade thingy" -its going nowhere
You have forgotten what it means to be an American.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
You didn't seem upset in the least that Trump bailed out of the intentional nuclear treaty with Iran, and the Paris climate accord, both of which took years of painstaking international negotiations.
What you really want is for your policy preferences to be kept forever, which is dictatorship.
We are fortunate to have a president who is personally invested in cultivating a security relationship with India, Australia, Japan as a counterweight to Communist China.
One of Trump's first acts in office was to call the prime minister of Australia to insult and harangue him.
Phantasmal (05-24-2022)
Apparently you do not realize who was president four years ago or understand that this restoration of the QSD began under that president you say "never understood".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadri...urity_Dialogue
The left just says nonsense about Trump and believe it because they want to, not because it is fact.During the 2017 ASEAN Summits in Manila, all four former members led by Abe, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and US President Donald Trump agreed to revive the quadrilateral alliance in order to counter China militarily and diplomatically in the "Indo-Pacific" region, particularly in the South China Sea. Tensions between Quad members and China have led to fears of what was dubbed by some commentators "a new Cold War" in the region.[3][4][5][6][7]
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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