The two leaders 'concluded their meeting by expressing their commitment to expanding bilateral & multilateral cooperation through Quad', says a readout after the bilateral meeting.
The joint communique came after the seventh round of the Pakistan-China Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue, held in Beijing between Ishaq Dar and Wang Yi.
Both the 21st meeting of Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism between India & US, and the 3rd Quad Counterterrorism Working Group meeting, were held in New Delhi this week.
The statement by 28 countries, including Quad members Japan & Australia, call for the conflict to stop. Israeli tanks have entered Deir al-Balah, striking at UN & WHO facilities.
Upcoming defence framework, following similar agreements in 2005 & 2015, will also include co-production of key systems including Stryker & Javelin apart from arms sales.
Ministers from Australia, Japan, India, US met in Washington for first time since the 22 April attack & Op Sindoor. Jaishankar called on ‘world to display zero tolerance to terrorism’.
The mission is being conducted under the framework of the Wilmington Declaration, a joint statement issued by the QUAD Leaders’ Summit, held last year in Wilmington, Delaware.
At the Global Technology Summit 2025 in Delhi, Philip Green said that US still sits ‘at the apex of global order’ and the Quad has ‘matured in a very important way’.
In Episode 1608, Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta looks at implications of Trump's course correction on Taiwan, China's strategic warfare to contain Taiwan & why India should take note.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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