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Biden Hosts 'Quad' Leaders
Above: US Pres. Joe Biden, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a quad meeting on the sidelines of the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. Image copyright: Jonathan Ernst/Contributor/AFP via Getty Images
The Facts
US Pres. Joe Biden is set to host his counterparts from Australia, India, and Japan in a Quad summit near Wilmington, Del., on Saturday, with reported plans to expand the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness to the Indian Ocean region.
They are also expected to agree on Quad's first-ever joint Coast Guard exercise, increase military logistics cooperation, provide a new open radio access network, and deliver strong language on the South China Sea and North Korea.
The Spin
Establishment-critical narrative
The Quad is nothing more than a divisive mechanism that the US created to make Australia, India, and Japan its pawns in the Indo-Pacific in an attempt to destabilize the entire region and gain a strategic advantage against China. Given that the three nations can't just turn their back on China, divergence will continue to prevail in the grouping.
Pro-establishment narrative
Over the past two decades, the Quad has grown from a humanitarian aid cooperation to a sustainable and solid grouping that wants to keep the Indo-Pacific free and open — but whose agenda goes well beyond traditional security concerns. While there are mutual concerns over Beijing's actions there, this is by no means an anti-China group.