September 2021 \ News \ INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
QUAD OFFICIALS DISCUSS COOPERATION

Senior officials of the Quad countries ...

By Arul Louis

Taking up topics of Washington’s priorities, the statement said they discussed ways to advance cooperation in countering disinformation, promoting democracy and human rights. None of the three statements on the meeting named China, whose threats to the region and beyond are the impetus for the four democracies to increase their level of cooperation. But the China factor was noted in the US statement which spoke of “supporting countries vulnerable to coercive actions in the Indo-Pacific region”.

August’s meeting followed up the virtual Quad summit of Prime Ministers Narendra Modi, YoshihideSugo of Japan and Scott Morrison of Australia, and US President Joe Biden held in March




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