United States, Philippines, Japan, and Australia, a new "Quad"?
India withdraws from the "Quad," replaced by the Philippines?
On the 5th, Indian media outlet Eurasia Times put forward this view, stating that since the foreign ministers' meeting of the "Quad" between the US, Japan, India, and Australia in July this year, the fate of the mechanism has become increasingly ambiguous.
The Indian media said that India was originally scheduled to host the "Quad" summit this November, but now there are reports that Trump has no intention of attending this meeting - if this information is true, it will lead to the cancellation of the entire summit.
In contrast, since January this year, the US Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, has held meetings twice with the defense ministers of Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, and issued joint statements emphasizing that the four countries of the US, Japan, the Philippines, and Australia will jointly respond to the so-called "Chinese threat."
Therefore, this leads the Indian media to speculate: Is the United States preparing to replace India's position in the "Quad" with the Philippines?
Actually, after Trump took office, the "Quad" mechanism cooling down is not surprising, because the mechanism was first proposed by安倍晋三 (Shinzo Abe) in 2007, and then fell into stagnation after Australia's withdrawal. Although Trump restarted the "Quad" in 2017 at Abe's suggestion, the mechanism truly "gained momentum" under Biden.
Evidently, those who have always been active and promoting the "Quad" mechanism to contain China are Japan and the American Democrats who believe in value-based diplomacy;
While Trump, on the other hand, only wants allies to serve as cannon fodder for the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, and is unwilling to bear the alliance responsibilities of the "Quad" mechanism.
This year's two meetings between Hegseth and the defense ministers of the Philippines, Japan, and Australia were actually discussing this point. The United States is pulling Japan and Australia, giving the Philippines a bunch of empty promises, and luring the Philippines into being confused and blindly provoking China.
Therefore, if India does not want to become a cannon fodder for the United States, it should exit the "Quad" as soon as possible.
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