China! the country much feared by the most veteran leaders of the world due to the dominance it has created and is creating in the South East Asian regions. China has kept itself locked from external forces due to which no other country in the world can predict its strength and it is very tough to measure its nuclear arsenal. On such lines Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime minister realized the growing dominance and diplomacy that china has created over the world. He explained that if China goes rogue then its will be a major threat to the world peace. Hence Prime minister Abe created a front in the year 2007 by reaching out to countries like The United states of America,India,Australia and Japan. He claimed that countries need to unite in order to curb the growing dominance of China and to create peace in the world so the dream to control China turned into reality and the countries united to form the Quad.
QUAD was a famous term coined by the media. But soon QUAD seized to exist as Australian politics had taken a shift and Prime minister John Horward lost his caim to the next term and Kevin Rudd became the new face of Australia. Kevin Rudd denied Australian involvement in any step taken to hurt its Allie in Asia, China. Due to its strengthened ties with China in Export trading. The dream Perished.Soon Prime minister Abe got back into power and revived the QUAD. However, during the 2017 ASEAN Summit all four former members rejoined in negotiations to revive the quadrilateral alliance. With Prime Minister Malcom of Australia, Prime Minister Abe of Japan, Prime Minister Modi of India and President Trump of the United States agreeing in Manila to revive the security pact among tensions in the South China Sea that was caused primarily by China and its territorial ambitions.
The most important factor of the QUAD is that it has never said explicitly that it has any intentions to curb China but it always said that the main focus of the dialogue was to create a strong Economic and defense front in order to protect Itself as well as the Asian countries but is it a fact?
The answer is no. Countries live to seek a benefit out of partnerships and there is a common hidden gain for all these countries which is to prevent China fro washing away its wings t the peripherals of South Asia and the world As China has claimed islands in the South china sea and are conducting military and Navy trials in the Sea. Further, China has aggressively sponsored The hambantota port In Sri Lanka, an amount which Lanka will not be able to pay soon(at least for the next 99 years) and China has been our new lessee for that port. Similarly the Gwador Port has been under its occupancy for the same reasons. The Chinese have created a string around India to envisage its mission of the String of pearls around the world and become the most powerful nuclear Arsenal in the world. But the two questions that will matter are- Can the QUAD be successful? Wha is the current position of QUAD?
starting with the latter, on the sidelines of the UNGA the defense ministers of these four countries have come together which was marked as an important day as the meetings were shaped from a joint secretary level to a foreign ministry level but there were no positive reports from the meetings. Answering the former question, Yes but there is no will for these countries to take up a resource rich country of China.
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