New Delhi: Addressing the evolving role of the Quad—a strategic grouping of the United States, India, Australia and Japan—the Australian High Commissioner to India Philip Green said Saturday that the alliance has grown significantly in the last few years and is poised for greater effectiveness.
He expressed confidence in the future of the Quad, emphasising that both India and Australia recognise the United States’ enduring centrality in global affairs.
Speaking at the Global Technology Summit 2025 in New Delhi, organised by Carnegie India and the Ministry of External Affairs, Green described the US as still sitting “at the apex of the global order”, and asserted that any notion of global powers being on equal footing is misguided. “Australia understands that. India understands that. And that explains a lot of our problems,” he remarked.
He added: “It was after the first Trump term that the Quad began its second journey. Since then—and I was the Quad chair at that point and I continue—a vast amount has changed.”
Reflecting on the early stages of the alliance, he noted: “In those days, the Quad was seeking to become the Quad. We were meeting at senior officials’ levels on the sidelines of other meetings, sometimes not pulling out a statement, occasionally a few lines. Now we have summits, we have foreign business meetings, we have working groups, we have a whole range of activities going forward.”
Green also underscored the unprecedented pace of geopolitical developments in the current global landscape. “There’s a new figure of speech in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Australia, in Canberra, which is operating at the speed of developments,” he said.
“The Quad has really matured in a very important way. I think what we can be sure of is that all members of the Quad are now keen to make it even more effective. He (Trump) now has a positive framework,” Green said.
(Edited by Mannat Chugh)
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