Quad summit bats for free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific
With China listening in, the leaders of US, India, Japan and Australia spoke in one voice at their first in-person summit on harnessing their national strengths to shape a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific and to play the role of force of global good, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words. The first face-to-face Quad summit […]
India, Australia PMs discuss Covid-19, clean energy amid AUKUS row
Amid a raging controversy over the AUKUS security partnership between US, Australia and UK, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi held his first in-person meeting with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison and discussed ways to take the burgeoning bilateral relations to new heights. “They discussed a broad range of issues which covered bilateral, regional and global […]
Chinese envoy cautious India against Quad ‘clique politics,’ seeks better ties
Paragraph By Shweta Aggarwal Ahead of the first in-person Quad summit in Washington, China’s Ambassador to India Sun Weidong has cautioned New Delhi to refrain from “closed and exclusive small cliques with the aim of containing a third party,” and underscored the imperative of bringing India-China relations, stressed by the border standoff in Ladakh, “back […]