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As the Quad loses steam, other security partnerships arise

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Quad ‘ocean foam that will dissipate’; he may have been right.

The talk is of an expanded Aukus, the defence sales and high technology arrangement grouping Australia with the UK and US.

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Ravi Velloor

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Six years ago, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was asked about the

revival of the Quad,

which groups the United States with Japan, Australia and India. The revival, after a decade-long freeze, had come on the back of the US endorsement of Japan’s move to promote a strategic mixing of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, which led to the “Indo-Pacific” nomenclature for the Asia-Pacific. The US even renamed its Pacific Command to IndoPacom.

Mr Wang responded acidly, saying there was no shortage of “headline-grabbing ideas”, before going on to predict that all this would soon dissipate like “foam on the seas”.

As the Quad loses steam, other security partnerships arise

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