Washington: China’s aggressiveness and therefore the coercive nature within the resource-rich Indo-Pacific region may be a frequent topic of dialogue among the Quad nations, the Pentagon has said In November 2017, India, Japan, the US and Australia gave shape to the long-pending proposal of fixing the Quad to develop a replacement strategy to stay the critical sea routes within the Indo-Pacific freed from any influence, amidst China’s growing military presence within the strategic region.
“There are many outcomes to the Quad relationship. and that they don’t all need to do with China… it isn’t that the Quad exists simply to counter China or their influence,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told reporters on Thursday at a press conference Now, obviously, what China’s doing within the Indo-Pacific region, the aggressiveness, the coercive nature with which they struggle to press their claims, certainly may be a frequent topic of dialogue with all our allies and partners, and positively inside the Quad,” he said.
“What the Quad arrangement gives us is another terrific opportunity to figure multilaterally on all types of initiatives which will help create what we actually want here, which may be a free and open Indo Pacific region. and there is tons that goes into that, and not all of it’s to try to to with China,” Kirby said.
Recently, on September 25, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along side his counterparts from Australia and Japan attended the primary in-person meeting of Quad leaders hosted by US President Joe Biden India, the US and a number of other other world powers are talking about the necessity to make sure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific within the backdrop of China’s rising military manoeuvring within the region.