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In joint statement, leaders of Quad nations target China’s ambitions in region
- On the sidelines of the G7 summit in Japan, the leaders also outlined some principles of the Quad partnership when dealing with challenges in the Indo-Pacific region
- China has criticised the grouping – comprising the leaders of the United States, India, Australia and Japan – as an Asian version of Nato, although it is not a security alliance
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The leaders of Japan, Australia, India and the United States on Saturday agreed to pursue a region free from “intimidation and coercion,” making a renewed commitment to preserving a rules-based order in the face of China’s military and economic ambitions.
Meeting on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, they also outlined some principles of the partnership, known as Quad, when dealing with challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. They included managing competition “responsibly” and working “transparently” with other regional partners.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said: “The security environment has become even more severe,” and that an “international order based on the rule of law is under threat” as he sat together with other leaders.
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Under such circumstances, he said it is especially important to encourage the international community to have more “cooperation,” not “division and confrontation.”
US President Joe Biden said one of the grouping’s missions is to demonstrate “the capacity of democracies to deliver.”
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