From WSJopinion: The U.S. military withdrawal undercuts the Quad’s ability to put pressure on Beijing, writes dhume
Composed of America, Japan, India and Australia, the Quad was revived four years ago amid growing concern about an assertive China. On Sept. 24, Mr. Biden will host the first in-person summit of leaders of the grouping. The message is unambiguous: Flanked by fellow democracies, the U.S. is gearing up to oppose Chinese belligerence. And Wednesday’s announcement of a new three-way defense pact among the U.S., U.K. and Australia makes the same point.
“There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that one of the inadvertent consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is that we have compromised India’s security,” says Ashley J. Tellis, an expert on Asian geopolitics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a phone interview. “India wanted Afghanistan to be the graveyard of terrorism, not the graveyard of empires.”
The strategic affairs commentator Brahma Chellaney wrote that the U.S. exit told its allies “that they count on America’s support when they most need it at their own peril.” In an op-ed titled “The unravelling of Pax Americana,” Samir Saran, president of the Indian think tank Observer Research Foundation, dismissed the idea of quitting Afghanistan to focus on China as naive. “Land frontiers still matter,” he wrote, “and the U.S. has ceded South and South West Asia to Beijing.
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