Following the postponement of the Sydney meeting, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese officially announced that the Quad leaders will instead meet in Japan to debate their future.
Despite the debt ceiling crisis forcing US President Joe Biden to postpone his bilateral trip to Papua New Guinea and Sydney for the Quad meeting, the leaders of the US, India, Japan, and Australia are still expected to discuss strengthening and expanding the security alliance outside of the May 19–21 G-7 summit in Hiroshima.
New Delhi is keeping quiet about the Quad meeting, but Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made it known that the conversation will now take place in Japan because the May 24 summit in Sydney has been postponed.
PM Narendra Modi will likely attend the bilateral programme in Sydney the following week, according to Albanese, indicating that the Indian leader would proceed with his travel to Papua New Guinea on May 22 after attending the G-7 meeting in Japan.
President Biden's trip to PNG and Sydney had to be cancelled due to the domestic debt limit situation, but the Quad leaders will still meet in Hiroshima to discuss the Indo-Pacific region in order to move forward with ensuring freedom of passage in the South China Sea. In order to demonstrate its authority over the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Quad must send a message to its ally, the Philippines, which has positioned five navigational buoys within its exclusive economic zone.
In an effort to forge deeper relations with the US, the Ferdinand Marcos Junior administration installed five navigational buoys from May 10 to 12 in five locations within a 322-kilometer radius, including the Whitsun Reef, where the Chinese Navy made a show of might in 2021.
In this situation, no Quad discussion will send the wrong signals to countries in the Indo-Pacific, especially Papua New Guinea, where the US was intending to start a maritime security pact to compete with China's with the Solomon Islands, which are right close to China in the Far Pacific. A lack of discussion will also have an effect on Taiwan, which has been subject to increased PLA aggression from China over the past several years and has taken the brunt of its military might.
The Quad leaders may find time in Hiroshima to issue a statement outlining the future of maritime security and resilient global supply chains after the Chief of Defence Staff, the principal military advisors of the Quad countries, meet in California on May 16 to plan a security response to Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
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