External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that Quad has moved very effectively in addressing various problems because it is a very contemporary arrangement. The Quad comprises of India, the US, Japan, and Australia. He made these remarks while speaking at the Global Technology Summit 2021. S Jaishankar also talked about the importance of critical technologies and India's journey in acquiring them. The External Affairs Minister (EAM) also spoke about India's growth in the field of technological advancements. The minister also said that partnerships with foreign countries need to empower India's capabilities and it is also about building the country's strengths.
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1. "Quad is very much for real. It has moved very effectively, well precisely because it's a very contemporary arrangement. The subjects Quad is looking at are practical subjects that will make a difference," S Jaishankar said. He also said that the Quad have done "incredible" work in the last two year and it has moved "very very effectively".
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2. The External Affairs Minister also highlighted the need for enhancing the domestic supply chains and said that the country cannot have economic growth without these strengths and without commensurate employment growth. "Jobless growth is not really growth, not certainly for a country like us," he added.
3. He also said that the focus should be on education, skill development, startups, creating greater employment, and fostering a climate for the growth of technology. "To promote that, I do not think we should be defensive about it," the minister said.
4. "To my mind, it has moved well precisely because it is a very contemporary arrangement that is loose, it is creative and it is open-minded. You throw ideas, you like it, you pick up on it; you do not like it you put it on the side, sometimes you revisit it, so it is a new way of working," Jaishankar said referring to the Quad.
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5. He further said that the Quad has effectively performed in producing vaccines, connectivity projects, facilitating the mobility of students, and looking at promoting startups and technology collaboration."If you are open to a point where those capacities get hollowed out which, I would argue, happened to us certainly for the early part of this century where our own industrial capacities have been allowed in many ways either to not grow or not grow commensurately with the growth of the economy," he added.
