The Quad and the next Cold War

‘Containing’ China is just as much the focus of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue as ‘containing’ the Soviet Union was when the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was founded 72 years ago.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, pictured in Washington D.C., on Sept. 24, 2021, for the first-ever face-to-face summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or 'Quad’ for short. Photograph courtesy of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Twitter

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 27, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Never mind AUKUS. It’s the Quad that counts. The creation of an Australia-United Kingdom-United States military alliance last week caused a tempest in a teapot, but the real action was elsewhere. In Washington last Friday the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (‘Quad’ for short) he...

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