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The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue may sound like the title of a missing Harold Pinter play set, post apocalypse, in a locked cellar in the maths block of a burned-out school, but it is in fact an international think tank with added military and political overtones. Its members are the Pacific maritime democracies of Australia, India, Japan and the US. First established in 2007 in the wake of the December 2004 Indonesian tsunami, it was moribund after a year but was revivified in 2017. It now holds bi-monthly summit meetings where security and other information is exchanged.