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Quad is U.S. anti-China game: Russia
Why is it in news?
- Russia hit out at the four-nation quadrilateral strategic dialogue or Quad.
About QUAD:
- The Quad first emerged as a cooperative response to the devastation of the 2004 tsunami, with the navies of India, Australia, Japan, and the US engaged in the coordinated delivery of humanitarian and disaster relief.
- The dialogue was first initiated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2007.
- Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is a mechanism which enables dialogue between four major democracies within the Indo-Pacific region, Australia, Japan, India, and the US, on issues of regional security.
- Objective: To secure a rule based global order, liberal trade practices and establish and maintain the freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific region.
- Due to ambivalence over growing US-China tension in Asia-Pacific, Australia had left the quad in 2008.
- During the 2017 ASEAN Summits Australia re-joined Quad in negotiations to revive the quadrilateral alliance.
Details:
- Russia has expressed concerns about the U.S. Indo-Pacific policy and criticised the Quad, comprising the U.S., Australia, Japan and India, as a “divisive” and “exclusivist” concept.
- This is the first time it has suggested that India-Russia ties could be affected by it.