Meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday, the so-called “Quad” foreign ministers pledged to continue working for a “free and open Indo-Pacific [region].” While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is more ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States offered sharp but veiled criticism of China on Friday, even as they maintained their Indo-Pacific-focused bloc is ...

For long, the strategic community in China has adversely perceived most developments in the Indo-Pacific as part of a “China containment” strategy promoted by the United States. Accordingly, Beijing’s ...

The Quad, composed of the United States, Australia, India, and Japan, is not a formal alliance. Still, the group has intensified its security and economic ties as tensions with China rise. The Quad, ...

Top officials from the “Quad” — a loose alliance between Australia, India, Japan, and the US — decried China’s military positions in Asian waters following talks on Monday. “We are seriously concerned ...

Most Chinese strategists seem to believe that the Quad can be stunted by positioning China as an attractive economic and political partner for the Quad states themselves and those outside the group.

Can the Quad contain China? Last week the leaders of the four nations that make up the informal grouping—the U.S., Japan, India and Australia—met for the first time in person at the White House. A few ...

On May 12, in a sharp rebuke to Bangladesh, Beijing’s representative to Dhaka, Li Jiming, warned Bangladesh that their bilateral ties would undergo “substantial damage” if Dhaka joins or backs the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Xi Jinping's signature foreign policy contribution–The Belt and Road Initiative–has attracted acres of positive press coverage ...

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or the Quad has regained strength in the face of an aggressive China. The foreign ministers of the four countries – Australia, India, Japan, and the United States – ...

The Quad – consisting of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States – held its second-ever foreign ministers meeting this week in Japan. Notably, the meeting came amid the global COVID-19 outbreak ...