QUAD Summit to Be Held Ahead of UN General Assembly

The meeting of the leaders of the United States, India, Japan and Australia will be held in Wilmington, Delaware.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have already arrived in Wilmington. Joe Biden will host his Quad partners at his home.

The general meeting and gala dinner will be held at the local high school that Biden attended more than 60 years ago. From Wilmington, the leaders of the four countries will travel to New York for the UN General Assembly.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue was formalized in 2007 with the active participation of then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US Vice President Dick Cheney. A year later, Australia left the organization, as a result of which its activities were suspended. QUAD resumed its work in 2017 at the initiative of Donald Trump, but the work of the association really intensified in 2021 under Biden.

The summit, which will take place this weekend, will be the fourth in-person and sixth general meeting of the leaders since 2021 (due to the pandemic, two summits were held via videoconference).

The United States has consistently tried to adopt anti-Chinese resolutions at the summit, and since 2022, anti-Russian resolutions, but the Indian government has just as consistently torpedoed these efforts. In this regard, the final resolutions of QUAD have always been vague and meaningless.

The QUAD summit this weekend is intended as the final one for President Biden, emphasizing the importance of the Indo-Pacific region for US foreign policy.

Journalists are not allowed to attend the personal meetings of the leaders at the Bidens’ home. It is not reported whether Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the summit.

Apparently, the summit will see another (possibly final) attempt to convince India to join the pro-American bloc in the confrontation with Russia and China. This is especially important shortly before the BRICS summit in Kazan.

At the UN General Assembly, Joe Biden is going to deliver a “historic” speech. Well, it will indeed go down in history as the speech of the “leader of the free world” who refused to understand that the old world no longer exists.