Union minister S Jaishankar had a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday’s margins of the Quad Foreign Ministers’ conference in Tokyo. The two leaders had a constructive conversation on the relations between the two countries and the current and potential challenges on the international level.
It was good to meet @SecBlinken in Tokyo today. Our bilateral work continues to advance well. Today, we also had a good conversation on regional and global matters. Looking forward to attending the Quad FMM tomorrow, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said on X, which was formerly known as Twitter.
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or QSD, also known as Quad, is a security dialogue organisation for strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, which is sustained through talks between members.
The four countries concretised the earlier plan of constituting the Quad to develop a new strategy for preventing the severing of strategic sea lanes in the Indo-Pacific region.
The South China Sea is connected to both the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. China claims most of the sea, while the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan have different claims to it.
The meeting between Jaishankar and Blinken comes at a time when the Quad is viewed as a strategic force that allows producing strategies and blueprints to ten spotlighting regional and global issues, including the escalating standoffs in the Indo-Pacific.
It could be assumed that the intriguing topic that was in focus during the conversation between the two leaders was the deepening of bilateral cooperation or the changes in geopolitics in the region.
