During a Quad meeting in Atlanta on Saturday, the top diplomats of Japan, the United States, Australia and India announced a joint response to what they describe as China’s use of economic coercion, pledging more than $85 million in aid to expand trusted AI access across the Indo‑Pacific and agreeing to launch a joint business forum.
Kyodo News reports that the officials, including Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, stated they had voiced “grave concerns regarding economic coercion, including through arbitrary export restrictions, as well as non‑market policies and practices that result in overcapacity to disrupt global supply chains in critical industries.”
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said the group expressed grave concerns about economic coercion.
"grave concerns regarding economic coercion, including through arbitrary export restrictions, as well as non‑market policies and practices that result in overcapacity to disrupt global supply chains in critical industries."
The meeting also set the stage for a potential Quad summit next month in the Philippines, with the four nations scheduled to visit Manila in mid‑November for consultations with ASEAN partners, Kyodo reported.
Kyodo noted that this was the third Quad meeting that year, ahead of a summit that could convene in the Philippines. The diplomats also coordinated views on developments in the South and East China seas and on the Middle East, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.
China has previously criticized the Quad’s initiatives as attempts to contain its rise in the region, a view it has reiterated in statements to international bodies, according to the report.
