{"id":33988,"date":"2018-10-30T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33988"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:50:38","slug":"after-the-tsunami-how-the-quad-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/after-the-tsunami-how-the-quad-was-born\/","title":{"rendered":"After the tsunami: how the \u2018Quad\u2019 was born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/after-the-tsunami\/article20461149.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the tsunami: how the \u2018Quad\u2019 was born<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s full capabilities came as a surprise to the world the Indo-Pacific during Tsunami crisis as India had naval capabilities of scale to move in urgently further leading to the formation of QUAD.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How did it start?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shocking death toll from the tsunami led to a call from Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to Indian envoy Nirupama Rao made it clear that island nation needed urgent humanitarian assistance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For India, it was time to show that the Indian Ocean was in fact India\u2019s domain, and India committed in an unparalleled manner to the effort.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India within twelve hours was in Colombo with its Indian naval helicopters and relief material.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Indian naval ships were in Galle and Trincomalee, while three others were despatched to Male within next two days.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INS Khukri and INS Nirupak, were converted into hospital ships and sent to the worst hit-country, Indonesia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In all, about 32 Indian ships and 5,500 troops were involved in the international relief effort.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The formation of Quad<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December 2004, the then U.S. President George W. Bush announced that India, the U.S., Japan and Australia would set up an international coalition to rescue those trapped in the waters, rush relief, and rehabilitate those made homeless, and to restore power, connectivity lines as well as infrastructure like ports and roads.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By mid-January the coalition handed over charge to the UN, it led to the birth of a new framework: the Quadrilateral, or Quad.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first to voice his long-standing idea of an \u201carc of prosperity and freedom with QUAD.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plan for a meeting of the Quad was formed with the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Tokyo in December 2006.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contrary to public perception, Australia wasn\u2019t the first to object. The U.S. felt that angering China with the Quadrilateral would hamper larger strategic efforts under way, including the move for sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council, and the six-nation talks on North Korea.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the tsunami: how the \u2018Quad\u2019 was born Context India\u2019s full capabilities came as a surprise to the world the Indo-Pacific during Tsunami crisis as India had naval capabilities of scale to move in urgently further leading to the formation of QUAD. How did it start? The shocking death toll from the tsunami led to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/after-the-tsunami-how-the-quad-was-born\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After the tsunami: how the \u2018Quad\u2019 was born<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704920737},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}