China's aggressiveness, coercive nature 'frequent topic of discussion' among Quad: Pentagon

Getty Images China claims nearly all of the disputed South China Sea, though Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of it. China’s aggressiveness and coercive nature in the strategic Indo-Pacific region is a "frequent topic of discussion" among the Quad nations but not all of it has to do with Beijing as there are lots of outcomes, the Pentagon has said. On September 24, US President Joe Biden hosted the first-ever in-person summit of Quad leaders that vowed to strive for an Indo-Pacific region that is free, open, inclusive, anchored by democratic values and unconstrained by…