‘Quad’ summit backs ‘democratic’ Indo-Pacific region, cites Chinese ‘aggression’

US President Joe Biden and the leaders of three major Asia-Pacific countries, an alliance known as the “Quad”, discussed “aggression” and “coercion” against members of the group by China, while agreeing to cooperate on development of 5G and other advanced technologies, in their first summit meeting on Friday.
Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, meeting by means of large flat-screen televisions, discussed China’s “coercion of Australia, their harassment around the Senkaku Islands, their aggression on the border with India”, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a briefing in Washington after the talks.