| Summary/Abstract |
While the world has come to a grinding halt under the Covid-19 pandemic, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, commonly called the
Quad, took traction under this very crisis. While countering China
ranks high on the Quad’s agenda, the unfolding security environment makes it
appear to have become the key agenda. That is to argue, although the Quad has
not outright stated this fact, China, undeniably, is the elephant in the room. The
fact that Beijing is excluded from the four-member grouping itself quantifies the
very logic behind the making of the Quad. In this case, the Quad can be seen as
a new kind of twenty-first-century security alliance
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