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2 THE OBJECTIVE: Quad has committed its members to promoting a free and open rules-based order rooted in international law. Reuters
Manoj Joshi
Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
The Quad joint statement has committed its members to promoting ‘a free, open rules-based order (RBO), rooted in international law’. This sounds authoritative and impressive. The problem is that no one is clear as to what the RBO means. Even though people are agreed that we all should follow a rules-based system in international affairs, there is no agreement on which rules, whose rules, and, indeed, the term itself.
India is in a bind. It is following America’s lead in implementing the RBO in the Indo-Pacific, but is complaining about western organisations questioning its adherence to a rules-based democracy.
Last Friday, President
Joe Biden virtually met the prime ministers of Japan, India and Australia as part of the first leaders summit of an informal strategic alliance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad as it s known. Asia is the priority, said Angela Mancini, a partner at Control Risks, on CNBC s Capital Connection Monday. She explained that based on last week s Quad meeting as well as the overall diplomacy that s happening with the current administration, the U.S. is making it very clear that the Indo-Pacific region is important to Washington compared to the previous administration s transactional approach. In addition to shoring up alliances to potentially counter China, there are some specific bilateral issues as well to deal with, Mancini said, adding that it includes the presence of U.S. troops in the region.
OPINION / VIEWPOINT By Global Times Published: Mar 17, 2021 01:48 AM
First Quad summit Illustration: Chen Xia/GTThe Quad is an informal security group consisting of the US, Japan, Australia and India. Under this rubric, they label themselves like-minded countries.
Yet soon after its first ever leaders summit held on Friday, some voices of discord are emerging about the block.
The joint statement of the latest summit claims that, together, we commit to promoting a free, open, rules-based order. Yet an Indian scholar, Manoj Joshi, distinguished fellow at India-based think tank Observer Research Foundation, wrote in an article published Tuesday that, The problem is that no one is clear as to what the rules-based order means… there is no agreement on which rules, whose rules, and, indeed, the term itself.
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The Quad declaration, in the form of the joint statement issued after the first summit of the Quadrilateral Grouping (Quad) on Friday, is tantamount to the declaration of the New Cold War between the US and its allies and China. This is the first ever joint statement by a Quad meeting which has, till now, been notoriously shy of coming out with anything âjointâ.