All you need to know about the Quad, the current summit, and initiatives
The HinduLeaders of four countries — India, the United States, Australia, and Japan, are scheduled to meet for the second-in person summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad in Tokyo on Tuesday, May 24. March 2021 was the first time, Mr. Biden, Mr. Modi, Australia’s outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and then Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga met virtually for an official Quad summit, releasing for the first time a set of objectives for the grouping in a joint statement called the ‘The Spirit of the Quad’. Analysing the key outcomes from the first ‘Quad’ leadership summit | The Hindu In Focus Podcast / repeat shuffle The other areas of immediate focus were the pandemic through strengthening equitable vaccine access for the Indo-Pacific, combating climate change, sharing critical technologies, cyber security, supply chain resilience, and infrastructure and connectivity projects. While the in-person meeting in September last year was focused on the formalisation of cooperation areas laid down in the March summit, the unscheduled meeting called by Mr. Biden this March showed deep divisions within the Quad grouping, as India had chosen to abstain from every vote at the UN and other organisations that criticised the Russian attacks on Ukraine.