On August 4, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") released a Withhold Release Order ("WRO") on tuna and other seafood harvested by the Hangton No. 112, a Fijian flagged and owned longliner fishing vessel.
This union of The Quad was initiated in 2004 for humanitarian reasons, scrapped in 2007, and then revived in 2017 for seemingly more military than economic reasons to keep China in check.
On 11 December 2020, the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council adopted a decision on granting a status of observer to Uzbekistan during its meeting, where the President of Uzbekistan participated.