10
November
2017
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17:46
Asia/Singapore

Commentary: The Indo Pacific, a security diamond, a 10-year Quad?

Asst Prof Rohan Mukherjee from Yale-NUS College wrote that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, when returned to power in December 2012, authored an article calling for the development of “Asia’s democratic security diamond”, which would involve Japan, India, the US and Australia. This grouping is what has come to be known as the Quadrilateral, or Quad, which many US and Japanese strategists see as the bedrock of a secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific region.