Japan and India became important fixtures in two such arrangements. Between Quad 1.0 and its revival 10 years on, the four countries realigned with minilaterals. Bush and senior members of his cabinet in 2008, Quad wasn't raised even once by the American side.
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More than a decade later, in a 2019 article, former Aussie PM Kevin Rudd recounted that in a full day of meetings with President George W. Subsequently, Australia was dropped from the 2008 Malabar exercise. The Quad lost its most vocal champion.Ģ008: Soon after the 2007 Malabar exercise, Australia pulled out of the Quad. Australia framed the Quad as a construct limited to trade and culture, India said the Quad had "no security implication."Ģ007: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a champion of the Quad grouping, resigned in September 2007. In the same year, within four months of the first meeting, Quad countries, alongwith Singapore, held an ambitious naval exercise in the Indian Ocean. The Prime Ministers of India, Japan, and Australia met with then US Vice President Dick Cheney on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). Our two countries have the ability- and the responsibility- to ensure that it broadens yet further and to nurture and enrich these seas to become seas of clearest transparence."Ģ007: Quad countries held their first official meeting, in Manila. A 'broader Asia' that broke away geographical boundaries is now beginning to take on a distinct form. Speaking in the Indian Parliament, he said, "The Pacific and the Indian Oceans are now bringing about a dynamic coupling as seas of freedom and of prosperity. In the same year, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed an "Arc of Freedom and Prosperity".Ģ007: In August, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "Confluence of the Two Seas" speech sparked the ideological foundations for the Quad. Beginning from its roots in crisis, here is a timeline that captures some of the key moments that have nudged the Quad into a closer embrace:Ģ004: The earliest framework for the Quad surfaced when the US, Japan, India and Australia formed a "core group" during their joint response to the 2004 tsunami.Ģ006: While in Tokyo, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that Japan and India wanted to begin a dialogue with other "like-minded countries in the Asia-Pacific region".
In early 2021, Quad returned to the big stage after a nearly 10 year lull.
In the last 17 years, the Quad has taken a meandering path to its current prominence, with China's shadow being a central theme. The Covid-19 summit taps into the heart of Quad's most urgent priorities- and India's strengths in vaccine production. Nearly 17 years after the deadly 2004 tsunami, when outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and US President Joe Biden will meet September 24 for the first-ever in-person leader level summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, it will mark a high point in a steady year-long elevation against the backdrop of China's growing economic and military strength and Covid-19.Ĭovid-19 vaccine production and distribution, supply chain resilience in critical and emerging technologies like semiconductors and 5G telecom networks are tipped to be top of the agenda.įor India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Quad meeting will be bookended by a Covid-19 summit convened by Biden and Modi's own speech at the UN General Assembly, on Saturday. Follow us on Image Source : PTI/ AP (FILE).įrom 2004 tsunami to COVID: A timeline of Quad elevation.
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