This weekend, President Joe Biden is hosting the three other national leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, a loose grouping among India, Australia, Japan and the US formed in 2004.

Washington’s declared policy goal for the region, including the Indian Ocean, has been to work with its Quad partners to provide “international public goods” and to preserve a “free and open ...

Quad Foreign Ministers met in Washington to launch key initiatives on maritime security, critical minerals, technology, and ...

The four nations have cooperated on and off since the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 in an informal grouping known as the "Quad," short for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. World ...

Naval drills in the Indian Ocean give bite to the anti-China “Quad” America, Australia, India and Japan are building a formidable diplomatic bloc ...

The QUAD summit, starting Saturday in Wilmington, Delaware, will announce the expansion of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness to the Indian Ocean Region. This initiative ...

France joins “Asian Quad” Indian Ocean naval drills, threatening China. V. Gnana. 18 April 2021.

The Delhi-driven subregional arrangement faces a number of challenges but stands as a noteworthy endeavor to coordinate on maritime safety and security in the Indian Ocean region.

For example, disaster relief cooperation between the U.S., India, Japan, and Australia after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami laid the foundation for the Quad, a grouping whose “free and open ...

The ‘old’ Quad between India, the US, Japan and Australia is focused on managing the rise of China and is naturally oriented towards the Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. However, in the WIO, ...

The Quad "raised hackles in Beijing, where it was viewed as little more than a brazen attempt to contain China's power in the region," the Australian Financial Review reported in September 2007.

This initiative's extension to the Indian Ocean will allow QUAD members, particularly Australia and India, to collaborate more closely with regional partners, improving coordination and response ...