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A Key American Bloc Faces Irrelevance

To repurpose or rethink QUAD, that is the question

What is covered in today’s insight?

  1. Why is QUAD in trouble?

  2. How is the US responding?

  3. What is QUAD’s future?


INTRODUCTION

As QUAD meets on September 21, drawing in the leaders of the US, India, Japan, and Australia, the bloc's future is up in the air. One of America’s key geopolitical groupings in Asia, which had tremendous momentum just a short time ago, appears to be lost in the wind.

This changes the calculation for QUAD and its members individually, all of whom are in growing geoeconomic competition with China. And, who are turning to alliances, formal and informal, to take on Beijing.

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