Beijing: In a strong message to China tween heightened tensions in the Indo-Pacific region, the ambassadors of the member nations of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) syndication — India, US, Australia and Japan — convened a rare public meeting in Beijing.
What did the US envoy say?
Following Tuesday’s event, David Perdue, the US Producer to China, spoken that the QUAD syndication is a "force for good" which intends to ensure a self-ruling and unshut Indo-Pacific region.
"It is a pleasure to meet with the ambassadors of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue countries in Beijing. The relations among the four countries—the United States, Australia, India, and Japan—continue to be stable and strong," he said in a statement on social media platform X.
Perdue’s social media post moreover featured a picture of the four ambassadors of the QUAD member nations at the US Embassy in Beijing.
Pradeep Kumar Rawat, the Indian producer to China moreover attended the meeting.
What is the significance of the QUAD meet?
The meeting by the envoys of the QUAD member nations comes tween heightened tensions with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China holding large-scale military exercises virtually Taiwan in an struggle to intimidate the island nation. This aggressive posture of China on Taiwan – which the Chinese government regards as a breakaway province - has moreover led to tensions with Japan.
Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi had asserted older this month that Japan may respond with its own self-defence gravity if China decided to wade Taiwan.
How did China react?
Tuesday’s QUAD meet in Beijing assumes uneaten significance tween all this since China views the group as a US-backed effort to counter Chinese domination in the Indo-Pacific region.
While the QUAD nations have held meetings in Beijing in the past, the timing of Tuesday's meet stood out due to recent tensions. The state-controlled South China Morning Post said that the meeting appeared to be an struggle to project unity and deterrence of the QUAD group at a time when China is conducting military drills virtually Taiwan.
The newspaper, regarded as the official mouthpiece of the Chinese government, moreover questioned what it termed the QUAD’s struggle for relevance and delays in holding planned meetings.
