New Delhi: With an eye on China, India along with the other three Quad countries — the US, Japan and Australia — committed to a “free, open, inclusive, healthy, anchored by democratic values, and unconstrained by coercion.” They said they were “committed to promoting a free, open rules-based order, rooted in international law to advance security and prosperity and counter threats to both in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Quad had come of age and that it had become an important pillar of stability in the region.
Modi with United States President Joe Biden, the Japanese and Australian Prime Ministers Yoshihide Suga of Japan and Scott Morrison of Australia discussed the Covid “Vaccine Initiative” as per which Covid would be “developed in the US, manufactured in India, financed by Japan and the US, and supported by Australia” at the meeting.
After their meeting on Friday evening, Modi, Biden and…