Reading the Quad Between the Lines

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities and future of the Quad partnership amidst recent geopolitical developments.

In this episode, Brigadier Anil Raman (Retd), Lokendra Sharma and Ashwin Prasad Rao sit down to make sense of the Quad partnership that's sending confusing signals. The Quad foreign ministers met in New Delhi on 26 May, but the optics were hard to read: no leaders' summit, Trump fresh off calling Xi a "great leader" in Beijing, and a year of tariffs on America's own partners. So the episode traces the Quad across its past, present and future—what the grouping actually is, how it got here, and where it's headed. Along the way they read between the lines of the recent announcements and actions, from critical minerals to the Fiji port project to maritime cooperation, asking what's genuinely new, what's older cooperation repackaged, and what it all means for India. Read the analysis by Lokendra Sharma and Brigadier Raman here: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/the-quad-lives-but-needs-course-correction-by-the-us-to-thrive-13933355.html https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/the-quad-has-gone-quiet-but-for-a-reason-11553377 Are you passionate about shaping India's future? Keen to find solutions for India's most pressing challenges? Look no further than Takshashila's Post…

People in this episode

Guests: Brigadier Anil Raman (Retd), Lokendra Sharma, Ashwin Prasad Rao

Topics covered

• Quad partnership
• foreign relations
• India
• maritime cooperation
• critical minerals

Keywords

• Quad
• foreign ministers
• New Delhi
• maritime cooperation
• critical minerals
• India
• Fiji port project

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Takshashila Institution

Places: New Delhi, India

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