Clouds of uncertainty loom over QUAD 2026 – Why it matters so much in Indo-Pacific against China

New Delhi: Uncertainty continues around the 2026 QUAD summit, even as talks continue at different diplomatic levels. Former US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M Campbell recently pointed to India’s important role in the group and said New Delhi has played an important part in guising its direction in the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking at an event at the Hudson Institute in the United States, he said, “India was the country leading from behind in QUAD.” He also revealed that then US President Joe Biden took more than an hour to convince Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join QUAD at the…