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(L-R) India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before a Quad Indo-Pacific meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on October 6, 2020 AFP The Economist magazine recently reported that when the United States, Australia, India, and Japan met in 2007 for a quadrilateral dialogue on security matters, many bet that the new grouping would “fizzle.” The magazine noted that once non-aligned Ind...

Sunday, 13 Dec 2020 Tense times: The immediate concern is whether Iran will fall for the US-Israeli bait with the killing of its top nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh and be tempted to order strikes that could then fetch a punitive response from Washington. — AP AMID the hand-wringing about what a Joe Biden administration in the United States could mean to the American posture in East Asia, here’s something of equal importance unspooling in another corner of the continent that could, at some point, tail back to us: last month’s murder of Iran’s top nuclear scientist an...