Quad launches cyber security inititiative
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"We are inviting Internet-users across the Indo-Pacific and beyond to join the Challenge and pledge to practice safe and responsible cyber habits," the White House said in an announcement. "The Challenge reflects Quad's continuing efforts to strengthen individuals' and communities' cyber security awareness and action, as well as to foster a more secure and resilient cyber ecosystem to benefit economies and users everywhere."
Quad foreign ministers to meet every year on sidelines of UNGA
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The Quad, which started out in 2004 as the Australia-India-Japan-US Tsunami Core Group and later turned into the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, has witnessed intense engagement in recent years after it was resurrected in 2017 by the Donald Trump administration from its 2008 collapse.
Quad leaders mourn assassination of co-founder Abe
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In a joint message on Friday, Prime Ministers Narendra Modi of India and Anthony Albanese of Australia, and US President Joe Biden said the former Japanese prime minister "played a formative role in the founding of the Quad partnership, and worked tirelessly to advance a shared vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific". They said that they were "shocked at the tragic assassination" of Abe, "a transformative leader for Japan and for Japanese relations with each one of our countries".
India plays crucial role in Quad, cyber security concerns take centre stage
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Quad partners bring decades of skills and experience together to catalyse infrastructure delivery to the region and are committed to working closely with partners and the region to drive public and private investment to bridge gaps. To achieve this, the Quad will seek to extend more than USD 50 billion of infrastructure assistance and investment in the Indo-Pacific, over the next five years.
Quad alliance a force for good
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The reaction of Chinese Foreign Minister on the new Indo-Pacific Framework (IPEF) was particularly full of unusual and explicit bitterness for obvious reasons. Amid increasing doubts on Chinese strategy under the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), Quad offers more reliable, viable and credible possibilities for win-win cooperation among the Indo-Pacific countries.
US proposes USD 1.8 billion fund for strengthening security and stability in Indo-Pacific
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“In the Indo-Pacific, America is strengthening its role and expanding its cooperation with longtime allies and partners, including new diplomatic, defence and security, critical and emerging technology and supply chain, and climate and global health initiatives, while supporting stronger ties between our European and Indo Pacific allies,” US President Biden said in a statement.
India’s response to Russian invasion of Ukraine 'somewhat shaky': US President Biden
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“(There has been) a united front throughout NATO and in the Pacific… The Quad is, with the possible exception of India being somewhat shaky on some of this, but Japan has been dealing extremely strongly (and) so has Australia,” President Biden said at a meeting of US business leaders. The US and its allies have responded swiftly and strongly to the Russian invasion of Ukraine via crippling economic sanctions on Moscow.  
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