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Australia to host Quad meeting of foreign ministers this month

February 1, 2022

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Australia will host a Quad meeting of foreign ministers in Melbourne this month.

Counterparts from India and Japan will join the US and Australia for the two-day summit, which will also discuss the crisis in Ukraine and threats to national and regional security.

ASPI’s Mark Watson says the Quad reinforces the fact Australia “sits as the hinge on the Indo-Pacific".

“It means that Australia is now at the centre of an interlocking geometry of bilateral, trilateral, and quadrilateral arrangements,” Mr Watson told Sky News Australia.

“It is about sending a message to China that if you’re going to bully a country like Australia, if you’re going to undertake economic coercion and other forms of coercion, you run a risk.

“You’re not operating against Australia alone; you’re operating against a country that is...at the centre of a set of interlocking security and defence arrangements.”

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Australia will host a Quad meeting of foreign ministers in Melbourne this month.

Counterparts from India and Japan will join the US and Australia for the two-day summit, which will also discuss the crisis in Ukraine and…

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