The moot point is to find synergy between Quad, AUKUS, EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy and also ASEAN. The business of strategic balancing in the Indo-Pacific is now being scripted seriously.

What AUKUS Means The announcement of AUKUS has underlined some of these contradictions. The Quad is not an Asian North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and has no commitment to collective security.

For the Quad, this means moving beyond symbolic gestures and becoming an active deterrent force in the Indo-Pacific. For Aukus, it means pushing Australia to develop military capabilities at a ...

In Brief. The 2020s may well be remembered as an era where defensive alliances strove to avoid naming the enemies they were set up to deter. Such is the strategy behind the Quadrilateral Security ...

Last week’s AUKUS bombshell and this week’s Quad summit also send some clear signals to the rest of Asia—and beyond—that the business of balancing China has now entered a serious phase.

Quad’s ambitions. Unambiguously, AUKUS implies a containment policy. Likewise, the further elevation of the Quad security grouping into a China containment front will play into an atmosphere of ...

Both the Quad and Aukus are racing against time to quickly institutionalise and create an impactful new strategic environment. It is still too early to say what the unintended consequences would be.

Of course, such niceties are good, but if Trump is not invested in AUKUS or the Quad, the number or order of meetings and phone calls will count for naught.

PM Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga attend Quad Leaders Summit at the White Ho Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

The return of Donald Trump as U.S. president marks an important crossroads in the future of two emergent Indo-Pacific security frameworks: the Quad, comprising Australia, India, Japan, and the ...

Collaboration with AUKUS partners (the United States and the United Kingdom) is crucial for Canberra to procure, test and commercialise the latest military technologies.At the same time, deeper ...