In 1st Meet Under Trump 2.0, Quad Sends Strong Warning To China
On his first full day in office on Tuesday, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held the first Quad ministerial meeting with Australia, India and Japan and jointly warned against changing the status quo in Indo-Pacific via coercive actions, in a veiled but clear warning to China over its actions at sea. This was the first meeting of top diplomats of the China-focused grouping since Trump returned to the White House.
Rubio met with his counterparts Australia's Penny Wong, India's Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Japan's Takeshi Iwaya in Washington. In a joint statement, the four nations restated their "shared commitment to strengthening a Free and Open Indo-Pacific where the rule of law, democratic values, sovereignty, and territorial integrity are upheld and defended."
