Like the Nato countries of 72 years ago, today’s Quad members collectively outnumber, outgun and surround their adversary.
Flags of the member countries of NATO are raised during the NATO summit at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium on May 25, 2017.
In Washington on Friday, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue held its first-ever face-to-face summit, and defined the sides in the great-power confrontation for the next generation. The United States, India, Japan and Australia have more than two billion people to China’s 1.4 billion, and economies that add up to around twice the size of China’s.
In terms of serious naval hardware, China has one-sixth of the tonnage of the Quad navies, including only two aircraft carriers to 15 for the Quad and 12 nuclear-powered submarines to 69. It’s superficially about minor territorial issues around China’s perimeter, but just below the surface it’s about sheer power in an almost abstract sense.
For Australia, perpetually nervous about being all alone as a Western country in Asia, alliance with America has been the sole foundation of defence policy ever since the end of the British empire.
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