As Asia’s “Quad” powers search for ways to define the group, Japan’s foreign minister has offered a model — The Beatles. | AFP
Hayashi himself is a skilled pianist. In 2021, he wowed his counterparts in the international association G7 during a meeting in Liverpool, the English band’s hometown, as he did an impromptu performance of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
The Quad was spearheaded by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an alliance of democracies, which China thereafter described as an attempt to encircle it. Its members deny hostile intentions and emphasize that their group is not a military alliance—instead cooperating in areas, such as vaccine production and disaster relief.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken — himself a guitarist who has released his own songs inspired by classic rock — made a similar point to Hayashi, if less musically.
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