{"id":95760,"date":"2021-03-17T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=95760"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:11:51","slug":"highlights-of-the-quad-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/highlights-of-the-quad-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of the Quad Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Synopsis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The maiden (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/quad-and-its-relevance-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quad Summit<\/a> witnessed declaration of a joint statement by four leaders along with a common article in the Washington post. It is a step which is expected to yield positive outcomes in the Asian Geopolitics and the Indo Pacific region.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 triggered cooperation among the navies and governments of the Quad Summit powers namely India,U.S,Australia and Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The countries wanted to build a diplomatic alliance in 2006-08 but sidelined the idea as:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China opposed creation of such a group<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese Dominance at that time was not strong enough to unite QUAD members in comparison to the current scenario<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However China\u2019s behaviour has turned hostile since 2017. The nation\u2019s constant adventures (including the 2020 Galwan Valley incident) induced QUAD members to concretise the vision of QUAD summit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus the 1st virtual summit took place on 12th March 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Highlights of the Summit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A joint statement titled <\/span><b>\u2018The Spirit of the Quad Summit \u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was released along with a common article in the Washington post. The leaders have visualised Quad as a flexible group of like-minded partners dedicated towards advancement of a common vision which will ensure peace and prosperity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>diverging views on the Indo Pacific are over<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The aim is to ensure a free, open, inclusive and healthy Indo Pacifc.The region should be anchored by democratic values and unconstrained by coercion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>security challenges <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from China especially in the east and south china seas has been recognised without expressly using the word China. The countries have agreed to adopt a smart blend of competition, cooperation and confrontation for containing Chinese actions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The summit has focused on <\/span><b>winning people\u2019s hearts in the indo pacific region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In this regard a special initiative to <\/span><b>ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the western Pacific to eastern Africa would be run.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Three working groups<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on vaccine partnership; climate change; and critical and emerging technologies (such as telecom and biotechnology) would be established.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Country leaders and foreign ministers have <\/span><b>agreed to do periodic meetings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in order to strengthen the habits of the Quad working together for a common vision.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Complete denuclearization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of North Korea as per the United Nations Security Council resolutions will be carried on by members. A statement made in South Korea\u2019s interest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Quad members agreed to<\/span><b> restore democracy in Myanmar <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">along with strengthening democratic resilience across the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Way Ahead:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The summit should <\/span><b>get the four national establishments into serious policy coordination<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and action mode, creating new capacities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new synergy in vaccine development is a real highlight that should result in the production of <\/span><b>one billion vaccine doses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India by 2022.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this regard, the U.S and Japan have volunteered for financial support, Australia performs well in logistics while manufacturing would be taken care of by India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The call for <\/span><b>democracy restoration <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can help ASEAN in carrying forward its diplomatic initiative to promote reconciliation in Myanmar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Further Beijing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has already shown its discontent against Quad. It has cautioned India from becoming a negative asset in SCO and BRICS groupings.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Greater clarity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is expected to emerge post the scheduled March 18 discussions between the top officials of the U.S. and China.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believed that some of <\/span><b>Asian Capitals may express a cautious welcome<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to QUAD as they are suspicious about the vision and objectives of QUAD.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GUM8CLHFA.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE HINDU\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: The maiden (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue)\u00a0 Quad Summit witnessed declaration of a joint statement by four leaders along with a common article in the Washington post. It is a step which is expected to yield positive outcomes in the Asian Geopolitics and the Indo Pacific region. Background: The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 triggered cooperation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/highlights-of-the-quad-summit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Highlights of the Quad Summit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1305,9],"tags":[1333,1241],"class_list":["post-95760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-ir_0","tag-ir_01","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704831874},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95760","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\/10322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}