Indo-Pacific region and the Quad

Einar Tangen

Inserted 1 year ago

“The US-led partnership for maritime domain awareness (IMPDA) is a thinly veiled rationale for the creation of a surveillance network, aimed at criticizing China's fishing industry. It will serve as another irritant in what is a deteriorating international relationship.”

Aljazeera

Beijing-based political analyst

28 May 2022 4 6

Gregory Poling

Inserted 1 year ago

“The IPMDA [Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness] could be enormously helpful to developing states across the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. This effort could seriously lower the cost and increase the capabilities of monitoring illegal fishing and Chinese maritime militia behaviour.”

Aljazeera

Senior fellow for south-east Asia at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

28 May 2022 8 4

Shinzo Abe

Inserted 2 years ago

“An adventure in military affairs, if pursued by such a huge economy like China's, could be suicidal to say the least. We must urge them not to pursue territorial expansion and restrain from provoking, often bullying, their neighbours because it would harm their own interests. Japan, the US and Taiwan should spare no effort in building our capabilities in all domains - from the undersea, sea surface, air space to the cyber and outer space to counter security threats in the region. Lest we forget, weakness invites provocations. With that in mind, I worked hard first to reinvest into the alliance with the US, second to widen our boundary from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific, and third to launch the Quad process.”

Scmp

Former Prime Minister of Japan

14 Dec 2021 6 3

Scott Morrison

Inserted 2 years ago

“We stand here together, in the Indo-Pacific region, a region that we wish to be always free from coercion, where the sovereign rights of all nations are respected and where disputes are settled peacefully and accordance with international law.”

Reuters

Australian Prime Minister

24 Sep 2021 2 4

Sameer Lalwani

Inserted 2 years ago

“The survival of the current iteration of the grouping across two US administrations and changes in governments in Japan and Australia speaks to [the Quad's] durability and how, you could say, the quad is here to stay. It's going to be a real institution … I think it's going to be a grouping that will occupy the minds in the planning of Washington's defence and diplomatic community for the coming years.”

Aljazeera

Senior fellow for Asia strategy at the Stimson Center

23 Sep 2021 3 5

Benoit Hardy-Chartrand

Inserted 3 years ago

“The fact that the quad meeting now is going to be at the leader level is certainly an illustration of the seriousness with which, and the importance that, all four partners give to this partnership.”

Aljazeera

East Asia analyst at Temple University in Tokyo

11 Mar 2021 4 3

Brad Glosserman

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Quad is intended to support the rule of law, regional stability and security. Joining the group would allow South Korea to participate more fully in regional security mechanisms and play a role commensurate to its status and capability. It signals Seoul's respect for a rules-based order and its readiness to support and sustain it. Inclusion in the Quad would also promote cooperation more broadly with participating nations.”

Koreatimes

Senior advisor to Pacific Forum, deputy director of and visiting professor at the Tama University Center for Rule Making Strategies in Japan

07 Feb 2021 2 4

Mike Green

Inserted 3 years ago

“Korea should do more with like-minded states to reinforce stability in the Indo-Pacific. Strategic ambiguity' is not a winning strategy for Seoul since it looks like weakness to Beijing. If Korea joins the Quad, the Biden administration would be impressed and indebted to Korea. China will be unhappy but Seoul would need to stand firm. If Korea cannot find a way to stand up to Chinese pressure now, it will find itself in a much weaker position later when Beijing makes even bigger demands ― for example, when China insists on a neutral Korea with no alliances after unification.”

Koreatimes

Asia expert at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies

07 Feb 2021 3 4

Gregory Poling

Inserted 3 years ago

“There is just not enough shared strategic interest or shared desire to accept risk on the military front. The way that the four different Quad members view their interests in the Indo-Pacific leads them to prioritise different areas. For instance, for the US, South China Sea and East China Sea are vital. Same goes for Japan. And for Australia, it also includes the Western Pacific. But for India, the Quad is about the Indian Ocean and South China Sea is a secondary theatre. So, while India may be willing to help with capacity-building, it’s not going to actually take risks that might involve violence or escalation in the South China Sea. It’s one thing for India to have a tense, antagonistic relationship with Beijing. It’s another for India to be part of an explicit coalition that seeks to contain Beijing. That would feel far too much like being part of a bloc. And India historically has resisted that.”

Aljazeera

Director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies

25 Nov 2020 11 4

Herve Lemahieu

Inserted 3 years ago

“The first time the Quadrilateral grouping was proposed [in 2007], it was a far more tentative partnership. Australia in particular was sceptical of the need for a Quad and it was wary of upsetting diplomatic relations with China. That’s why the initial iteration fell apart. Since then, there has been a hardening of attitudes towards China among all the Quadrilateral partners. And in that sense, Beijing has been its own worst enemy. The Quad comes about as an effort to try to deter China’s ability to challenge and disrupt the rules-based order and the status quo in the Indo-Pacific region. It’s a signalling on the part of these four democracies [India, Australia, US, Japan] that they are and they would get even more serious about acting as a military and strategic counterweight to China, if Beijing were to continue to challenge [the status quo], not just in the South China Sea but also in the Indian Ocean.”

Aljazeera

Director of the power and diplomacy programme at the Sydney-based Lowy Institute

25 Nov 2020 8 4

Linda Reynolds

Inserted 3 years ago

“Exercise Malabar is an important opportunity to work in concert with like-minded nations to support a secure, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.”

Aljazeera

Australia’s Defence Minister

03 Nov 2020 6 2

Aleksei Zakharov

Inserted 3 years ago

“The rift in China-India relations may result in a shift in New Delhi’s policy, in particular its closer engagement with the US and other Indo-Pacific nations, including the further evolution of the Quad [Quadrilateral Security Dialogue]. Certainly that’s not something Moscow would like to transpire as it has always appreciated India’s distinctive course in the Indo-Pacific region.”

Scmp

Researcher at Russian Academy of Sciences

12 Sep 2020 5 6

Stephen Biegun

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Indo-Pacific region is actually lacking in strong multilateral structures. They don‘t have anything of the fortitude of Nato or the European Union. The strongest institutions in Asia oftentimes are not, I think, not inclusive enough and so … there is certainly an invitation there at some point to formalise a structure like this. Remember even Nato started with relatively modest expectations and a number of countries [initially] chose neutrality over Nato membership.”

Scmp

Deputy Secretary of State

01 Sep 2020 2 2

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“We stand here together, in the Indo-Pacific region, a region that we wish to be always free from coercion, where the sovereign rights of all nations are respected and where disputes are settled peacefully and accordance with international law.”

“The fact that the quad meeting now is going to be at the leader level is certainly an illustration of the seriousness with which, and the importance that, all four partners give to this partnership.”

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