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The leaders of the United States, Australia, India and Japan issued a lengthy joint statement on Friday, declaring their commitment to a “free and open Indo-Pacific” amid continued efforts by communist China to “coerce unproven”. world. The statement from the leaders of the “Quad,” or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, was issued shortly after their first in-person meeting, which lasted two hours at the White House in Washington, DC. Quad was originally established in 2007 and has been meeting from time to time since then. Strategic negotiations between democracies are widely seen as a response to the growing economic and military power...
