Quad meet slammed as attempt to curb China
China DailyUS President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for a Cancer Moonshot announcement at the Quad leaders summit in Claymont, Delaware, US, Sept 21, 2024. Beijing has slammed Washington for "patching up small and exclusive circles" and urged it to let go of the "obsession with containing China", shortly after the United States hosted a Quad summit. It is positioned as a primary leadership mechanism for the US' "Indo-Pacific strategy", which "attempts to build consensus on containing China by hyping up 'China threat'", Lin said at a regular news conference. In response to the "serious concern" voiced by Quad leaders about the situation in the East China Sea and South China Sea, Lin said the situation has remained stable in general.