▶️ Why it has returned and expanded: The Quad was created in the midst of an unforeseen humanitarian emergency. Twenty years later it has returned and deepened due to long-foreseen and ever-escalating destabilising behaviour by China. ▶️ The structural dynamics that will keep it going: As much as the power of the individual leaders of the Quad nations may ebb and flow, China’s destabilising beh...

▶ The Wilmington declaration was candid in highlighting the constructive impact of the “personal” in political affairs ▶ The Quad’s minilateral characteristics, from flexibility to ad hoc nature, have highlighted it as an essence of the US pivot to the new “latticework” institutional approach for the emerging Indo-Pacific architecture ▶ What helps the Quad in establishing its soft secu...