What's going on at the Quad meeting

 The Prime Ministers of India, Japan and Australia are talking to the US President face-to-face at the White House for the first time under the banner of Quad. The initiative taken regarding the vaccine has helped the countries of the Indo-Pacific. In the same meeting, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, "The purpose of the Quad is to show that democratic countries can do things and that it should be free from all forms of impropriety", while Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says that the Quad meeting Has shown strong brotherhood between the four countries. There is a lot of curiosity among countries and international relations analysts around the world about the meeting of the Quad being held separately at the time of the annual general assembly of the United Nations. America, The recent Okus Agreement between Britain and Australia has increased its importance. US President Joe Biden held separate bilateral talks with the Indian Prime Minister in the Oval Office before the Quad meeting, and after that India-US relations were described as very important. He said that together with India, many problems of the world can be solved.

Joe Biden told the Quad meeting that the four big democracies know how to operate and are ready to take on challenges. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that this four-nation organization will "work for the good in the world". , "It was agreed to make one billion additional doses of the vaccine in India to increase the supply" Quad plans to make one billion vaccine doses of Kovid-19 by 2022 and supply it across Asia. However, in April, when the cases of Kovid increased rapidly in the country, India banned its export and the plan fell into disrepair. India has said that it will start exporting again in October. Kovid vaccine from this meeting of Quad, Significant progress is expected in the direction of increasing infrastructure and technical cooperation. Several new agreements are expected to be announced, with a special focus on protecting the supply chain of semiconductors, curbing poaching of illegal fish and raising awareness about the marine sector.

Along with this, agreements can also be announced for sharing of 5G internet and monitoring of climate change. The Quad is an organization of the US, Australia, India and Japan, whose purpose is to increase cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. It is believed that America's special interest in this organization is to challenge the growing influence of China in this area. The first meeting of the Quad was held in March and this is the first time that the leaders of the four countries are meeting face to face on the platform of this organization. In a meeting held at the White House, the office of the US President, the Australian Prime Minister clearly said that the Indo-Pacific region should remain free and open. He called it necessary to counter the growing influence and domination of China in the region.China also has a special eye on this meeting of four democratic countries and has already been critical of this faction. China sees the issues being discussed here as interference in its field of work. China is also upset by the talk of Australia getting a nuclear submarine after the Okus agreement. He says that this will intensify the arms race in the area. However, US officials said that security issues were given less importance just before the Quad meeting. NR/MJ (Reuters).