Leaders of US, Australia, India and Japan begin discussions at Quad summit aimed at countering an increasingly assertive China and paving over differences on issues including Russia
Four Asia-Pacific leaders of the"Quad" grouping vow to stand together for a free and open region at the start of talks, pledging also to work on fighting the climate crisis.
Tuesday's summit of the grouping known as the Quad comes a day after US President Joe Biden said Washington would be ready to intervene militarily to defend Taiwan, prompting China to accuse him of "playing with fire"."This is about democracies versus autocracies, and we have to make sure we deliver," Biden said as the Quad summit began.
China's foreign minister will visit the Solomon Islands this week, with reports suggesting he could add other countries including Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga and Kiribati.In a nod to those concerns, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida urged Quad members to "listen carefully" to regional neighbours, including the Pacific islands, "to help resolve the immediate challenges they face".
Collected data will be unclassified and shared with "a wide range of partners" to help monitor activities like illegal fishing.Biden, Kishida, Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be looking to present a united front, but there are divisions behind the scenes.
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