Context:
India and other Quad member-nations on Tuesday reaffirmed the grouping’s steadfast commitment to work towards a free, open, and peaceful Indo-Pacific amid China’s increasing military muscle-flexing in the region.
Quad: A Cooperative Alliance in Politics
- The grouping was initiated as alliance of the four countries, Japan, Australia, India, and the US, which was started in the year 2007.
- The dialogue was paralleled by joint military exercises of an unprecedented scale, named Exercise Malabar.
- Aim
- Deemed as an answer to the growing economic and military muscle of China.
- Known formally as the “Quad” not the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.”
