{"id":764,"date":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianewscast.com\/2026\/05\/27\/no-the-quad-isnt-dead-this-weeks-foreign-ministers-meeting-proves-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:32:57","slug":"no-the-quad-isnt-dead-this-weeks-foreign-ministers-meeting-proves-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"No, the Quad Isn\u2019t Dead. This Week\u2019s Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting Proves It."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"td-story-image\" class=\"td-media td-media--story\">\n<div class=\"td-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"No, the Quad Isn\u2019t Dead. This Week\u2019s Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting Proves It.\" title=\"No, the Quad Isn\u2019t Dead. This Week\u2019s Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting Proves It.\" src=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sizes\/td-story-s-1\/thediplomat_2026-05-26-213614.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"td-caption\"><span>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1567621308052626&amp;set=pcb.1567621341385956\" target=\"_blank\">Penny Wong \/ Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<section id=\"tda-gated-body\" class=\"td-23-story-body td-prose tda-gated tda-gated--locked\" data-pid=\"p309431\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Quad is not dead. Some are declaring its demise, but this week\u2019s meeting of the foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States in New Delhi is uplifting proof of life amid the world\u2019s state of crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As China gathers strength, the Quad is indeed becoming ever more valuable, including to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doubts about the group\u2019s survival have grown because the Quad\u2019s national leaders haven\u2019t met since 2024. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/national-security-daily\/2026\/05\/22\/fear-and-anxiety-inside-the-quad-00934241\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cited analysts pointing to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s lack of interest in the grouping. Writing in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/05\/22\/quad-marco-rubio-visit-security-india-china-australia-japan-united-states\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foreign Policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute described \u201ca perceptible sense that the Quad is fading away.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/videos\/explainers\/trump-in-china-quad-is-dead-where-does-india-stand-now\/videoshow\/131096529.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Times of India<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said the Quad \u201cis quietly losing steam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year\u2019s planned meeting of Quad leaders was reportedly canceled due to tension between Washington and New Delhi. But even the lack of a leaders\u2019 meeting for a second year should cause no alarm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daily Quad work directed and checked by annual leader meetings would be ideal, but for the time being the foreign ministers meeting is what\u2019s needed. Continuity of contact and action is necessary at all levels in the Quad, and foreign ministers are the ones who drive it forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People are talking about the Quad\u2019s demise only because its meetings did reach leader level in 2021. But the Five Eyes intelligence grouping doesn\u2019t meet at the leader level, and no one doubts its vital importance. And while leaders established the AUKUS security partnership, to succeed it must be an ingrained part of the three nations\u2019 defense systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Significantly, the focus of all these groups is the challenge from China. This was the reason for the Quad\u2019s reestablishment in 2017 and its elevation to the level of foreign ministers\u2019 meetings in 2019. Back then, there wasn\u2019t even a joint statement, yet this didn\u2019t make the group insignificant. Public-facing work, such as leaders\u2019 meetings, is necessary, but even without it the Quad provides a vital mechanism for its members\u2019 foreign policy and security communities to collectively counter China\u2019s behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other international issues sometimes appear and draw members\u2019 attention away from the Quad. Bilateral tensions within the Quad appear, too, as they did last year. But these are temporary, whereas the animating force behind the Quad, the challenge from China, is as permanent as anything gets in international relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Quad should be seen as a permanent institution for Indo-Pacific stability and tomorrow\u2019s meeting should answer, again, any questions about U.S. commitment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump\u2019s approach to international affairs does heavily stress personal relationships and bilateral agreements. He knows that the United States, like all major powers, can influence other nations\u2019 policies directly, not necessarily through groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the China challenge is too much to handle with bilateralism alone. It makes the U.S. alliance network and minilateral groups, such as the Quad, much more important for Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">China is increasingly confident. President Xi Jinping hosted Trump this month for their summit of rivals, and, as soon as Trump departed, Russian leader Vladimir Putin landed \u2013 not as a rival but as a partner in a public plan for global authoritarian domination. The Iranian foreign minister was in Beijing just before Trump\u2019s summit, and Xi reportedly plans to visit North Korea soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer to the tests Beijing is setting is collective democratic action. This Quad meeting is just that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For while closure of the Strait of Hormuz will be on the meeting agenda and probably dominate any public component, the top priority will be China. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will likely take his counterparts through the Trump-Xi summit. The Delhi meeting will be further reassurance that the U.S. has not abandoned the Indo-Pacific. As part of the summit debrief, the potential sale of U.S. weapons to Taiwan should feature and Rubio is likely to receive private support from his Quad colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Australia, Japan, and India, the task is to continue investing in their national security as the most effective way to ensure Washington is confident that they\u2019re not taking economic benefits from China while leaving the security burden to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">India and Japan still grapple with border and territorial disputes with China. The Chinese navy circumnavigated Australia in the middle of an election campaign last year. For all Quad nations, Beijing\u2019s objectives of technological supremacy, taking over Taiwan, ruling the South and East China Seas and dominating the Indian Ocean and Pacific island nations represent a threat to security and sovereignty. While much of this will be discussed privately, it would be positive to hear Quad nations express support for the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is now increased transparency on China\u2019s foreign policy objectives, including its penetration into the Pacific through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/china-accused-of-using-diplomatic-theft-to-freeze-australia-out-in-pacific-20260505-p5ztv2.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bribery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and elite capture. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong will likely lead this topic and take her counterparts through unreported background. Given the significance of the Pacific to the Quad, it would be good to bring New Zealand into such discussions from time to time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reports of the Quad\u2019s death are greatly exaggerated. The Quad should be a powerful part of a minilateral framework \u2013 also including the Five Eyes, AUKUS and the Squad, an informal arrangement that includes the Philippines \u2013 that gives the US and its allied network its greatest advantage over Beijing\u2019s toolset of bilateral coercion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The foreign ministers meeting reinforces the ongoing importance of the group. That is progress, as would expansion to defense and tech-focused ministers. In a world full of Quad ingredients, leaders\u2019 meetings would just be the icing on the cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article was <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/no-the-quad-isnt-dead-this-weeks-foreign-ministers-meeting-proves-it\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">originally published in ASPI\u2019s The Strategist<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Penny Wong \/ Facebook The Quad is not dead. Some are declaring its demise, but this week\u2019s meeting of the foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States in New Delhi is uplifting proof of life amid the world\u2019s state of crisis. 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