Dec 14, 2021 · By early 2021, Chinese officials had realized that neither ignoring nor splitting the Quad would work. So Beijing moved on to a third option: full-scale political attack. The March 12 Quad leaders meeting confirmed growing Chinese concerns about the grouping’s significance.

May 16, 2023 · While the Quad is far from a formal alliance, Beijing understands that the group shares a deep concern with China’s growing role in the Indo-Pacific and beyond and that it has the potential — if not the tacit intention — to impede China’s rise.

Aug 6, 2021 · After years of growing U.S.-Chinese tensions, assertive Chinese behavior in the South China and East China Seas, and repeated clashes between Chinese and Indian forces along their contested land border, the strategic calculus on China had evolved in all the Quad capitals. Still, Beijing thought it had little reason to worry after the Quad ...

Jul 30, 2024 · Beijing has rebuked the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) after its thinly veiled criticisms of China during a meeting where U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed the group as a...

Jan 21, 2025 · The Quad grouping met many times during the administration of former President Joe Biden, with a focus on Beijing's military and economic activities in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the South ...

Sep 9, 2024 · Initiated in 2007, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – typically abbreviated to "the Quad" – is a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, accompanied...

Sep 25, 2024 · “Quad keeps chanting the slogan of a free and open Indo-Pacific, and all the while, it has been scaremongering, inciting antagonism and confrontation, and holding back other countries’ development,” underscoring Beijing’s threat perceptions towards the …

Sep 23, 2024 · China on Monday termed Quad as a tool used by the US to contain Beijing, asserting that interference by any external force will not shake its determination to uphold its "sovereignty and maritime rights" in the disputed South and East China Seas.

May 23, 2022 · The renewed activity has seen China’s initial scorn turn into alarm, with Beijing viewing the grouping as part of Washington’s attempt to encircle the country with strategic and military allies.

May 24, 2022 · With its focus on the Indo-Pacific, the Quad says it backs the free and open, rules-based global order - it's unstated goal is containing an increasingly assertive China in its backyard.