US hosts Quad meeting amid strained bilateral ties
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted Australia, Indian and Japanese colleagues and tried to increase their efforts to fight against China even as trade and other bilateral disputes brought about relations.
Four countries, known as the quartet, share concerns about China’s growing power, but Bağlar was forced by US President Donald Trump by a global tariff attack that no member has avoided.
Nevertheless, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the meeting was “very productive”.
“Today’s meeting will strengthen strategic stability in Indo-Pacific and keep it free and open,” X said.
While meeting their counterparts, Rubio called Quad countries as important strategic partners and said it was time to “take action” on certain issues.
He said that 30 or 40 companies from four countries will meet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to discuss cooperation, including the diversification of the supply chain for critical minerals, which are currently dominated by China.
The meeting offers the chance to pay attention to the region, which is seen as the primary challenge for the US after distributing attention other places, including Trump’s last Israeli-Iran conflict.
In January, Quad said it would meet regularly this year to prepare for the summit of a leaders in India.
Rubio was also held with Bilateral meetings with Japan’s Takeshi Iwaya, Jaishankar and Australia Penny Wong.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the US and India made an agreement to help reduce tariffs on US imports in the early hours and avoid India’s sharp rise next week.
Jaishankar said that an event in New York on Monday had hopes to bring negotiations to a successful conclusion that requires “give and buy” to find the middle ground.
After the quadruple meeting, Jaishankar said that he hoped that the defense secretary Pete Hegset could improve India and the United States’ defense integration efforts.
“We hope that we can complete a few major defense sales waiting for the United States and expand our joint construction efforts,” hegset said, “We can complete a few major defense sales.” He said.
Japan postponed the annual ministry meeting with the US state and defense departments to be held on Tuesday.
Press reports said that this movement followed the pressure to increase the US more military expenditure than previously requested.
Nicholas Szechenyi, Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the US-Japanese ties have lost acceleration since Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Trump provided a new golden age in February.
“Tariff negotiations consume everything, and the Japanese seem to be bored by public lessons on defense expenditures of the Japanese.” He said.
Financial Times said last week that the demands came from the analysts’s closest senior Pentagon official Elbridge Colby, and that this country was a study of the Great Aukus project to provide nuclear powerful submarines and created concern in Australia.
Arthur Sinodinos, Australia’s former Washington DC Ambassador and is now consultant to Asian Group, said that bilateral problems can be overshadowed by the meeting, where the US is willing to focus more quadruple.
“Australian viewers will look for clues about the US attitude towards AUKUS and trade.” He said.
