Most of the attention was focused on China in the Hiroshima Quad Summit

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Hiroshima: Here the name of China was not mentioned in the summit meeting of the quad countries. However, it became clear from the decisions taken in this that China is the biggest target.

The conference deliberated on undersea internet cables, cyber security and protecting sea lanes in the region from threats.

US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese were present at the Quad conference. Their discussion was mostly about keeping the Indo-Pacific region free from threats and said that there is no domination in this region and it will not be allowed to happen. In this way the Quad leaders indirectly mentioned China.

Along with this, these leaders took decisions on digital technology, protection of submarine cables, (Optical fibers spread across the sea), infrastructure capacity building (increasing basic needs) and keeping sea waterways open.

Not only this, decided to provide economic assistance and basic needs (infrastructure) to ASEAN countries, Taiwan and Philippines etc. living in the coastal areas of the Indo-Pacific region.

In particular, attention was also focused on the security of Taiwan, a purely democratic island nation against communist rule on the Chinese mainland, and the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. Not only this, the Quad leaders had taken a firm decision in that conference to protect Taiwan from any future military disaster (from China).

In addition, the leaders of the other countries of the Quad promised to join hands with the US for optical fiber cables to be laid by the US in the world’s oceans.

A $600 million contract has been awarded to an American company for laying sub-sea cables. Which connects Europe via Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The 12,000-mile-long optical fiber project has been named the Southeast-Asia-Central-East-Western Europe-6 (CMWE-6). Which will be completed by 2025. In this way China’s Belt-Road Initiative (BRI) will be completed.

Significantly, in the West, Pakistan considers China as its strategic partner. In the context of Myanmar’s military rulers in the past who have become outright vassals of Beijing, India’s Narendra Modi government is forced to take sides with like-minded friends.