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What is the news?
The External Affairs Minister will begin a visit to Australia to attend a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Quad (India, Australia, United States, Japan).
What is Quad?
What is the purpose of the Quad Foreign Ministers meeting?
The meeting is expected to discuss cooperation on vaccines, technology and regional security issues including related to China.
Note: US has said that Quad will discuss the challenges that China poses to the rules-based order in a number of sectors.
The meeting is also expected to lay the groundwork for the second Quad leaders summit.
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What was China’s response on the Quad’s agenda?
China has said that the US despite its ruined democratic brand still forces other countries to accept its democratic standards and cobbles together countries by drawing the ideological line.
Note: China had earlier denounced the Quad as a Cold War construct and a small circle “targeting other countries”.
Source: This post is based on the article “Quad Ministers set to meet in Australia” published in The Hindu on 10th Feb 2022.
