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Australia’s Leader Backs Revived Quad as Counter to China

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  • PM describes grouping with U.S., Japan, India a ‘key forum’
  • China has made it clear it opposes ‘Indo-Pacific strategy’

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed to cement the Quad -- a grouping with the U.S., Japan and India designed to act a counter to China’s growing might -- into the Indo-Pacific’s diplomatic and security architecture.

A week after the Quad met at ministerial level for the first time last week in New York after the concept was revived in 2017, Morrison described the grouping in a Sydney speech on Thursday as “an important forum for Australia and the region” that “complements the role of Asean and Asean-led architecture.”