In a meeting with foreign ministers from Japan, India and Australia on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared to urge them to take the U.S. side in a confrontation with China. The meeting resulted in no major initiatives.
From left: Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attend their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.From left: Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attend their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
If, as it appeared, Pompeo was pushing other members of the Quad to take the U.S. side in a confrontation with China, he did not score any ringing public endorsements, and his remarks clashed with those of his host. "As partners in this Quad, it is more critical now than ever that we collaborate to protect our people and partners from the CCP's exploitation, corruption and coercion," he
"Even a country like Australia, which has had a pretty rocky time with Beijing over the last few months in particular, is reluctant to even seriously acknowledge what the true purpose of the Quad is," comments, an emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University in Canberra.
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