Joe Biden talks with Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison and Yoshihide Suga during the Virtual Quad Summit in March this year.
President Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the White House for the first time in person for the Quad Leaders Summit.
At the Quad summit, leaders will take stock of the progress made by the grouping since their virtual meeting in March and plan to expand its reach in the Indo-Pacific, a US geopolitical strategy to confront a confrontational China. has become important. In person the Quad Summit shows that US involvement in the Indo-Pacific is growing in many ways.
The Quad is a strategic dialogue between the United States, Japan, Australia and India. This dialogue was started by Japan in 2007. These four countries have common interests in the Indo-Pacific region. The recent signing of the AUKUS Agreement between the US, UK and Australia makes it clear that new alliances are being worked out in the region.
Ahead of the first individual Quad meeting, PM Modi and his Japanese counterpart Yoshihide Suga have reaffirmed their commitment to a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region, as they reviewed multi-faceted bilateral ties and views on recent global developments. exchanged. including Afghanistan.
“We have extended the Quad partnership between Australia, India, Japan and the United States to engage with regional institutions ranging from health security to climate to emerging technologies,” Biden told the United Nations on Tuesday.
PM Modi arrived in America on an official visit. He will hold his first one-on-one meeting with President Joe Biden today ahead of the Quad Summit. Both Biden and PM Modi have spoken virtually on several occasions since the former Democrats became US President in January. The last telephone conversation between them was on 26 April. Earlier on Thursday, he met Vice President Kamala Harris. He will address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday.
This is PM Modi’s 7th visit to the US after assuming office in 2014. The PM’s visit is an opportunity to strengthen the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and strengthen ties with Japan and Australia.
On Thursday, Harris met PM Modi, the first meeting between the two leaders. Harris had earlier spoken to Modi over the phone in June during the COVID-19 crisis. Harris is the first woman, the first black American, and the first South Asian American to be elected vice president.
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