Anti-China team, including on vaccines

Joe Biden launches his Asian Pivot and brings together the Quad (America, Australia, India and Japan). First promise: the whole Pacific free from Covid by 2022

On Friday the leaders of America, Japan, India and Australia met for the first “Quad summit” in history. The Quad is the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue”, and until now it had only taken place with lower-level and informal meetings. But with the Biden Administration the alliance between Washington, Tokyo, New Delhi and Canberra has taken on a new strategic value, especially in an anti-Chinese key. In an editorial published in the Washington Post last Sunday, the four leaders of the Quad announced their goals for an Indo-Pacific area “governed by international law and fundamental principles such as freedom of navigation and peaceful dispute resolution” . But above all Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison and Yoshihide Suga announced “an ambitious project” to “put an end to Covid-19”: “Together, we are committed to expanding and accelerating the production of safe, accessible and effective vaccines in India. “, To vaccinate the entire Indo-Pacific region by 2022”. In short, a concrete alliance to stop the advance of the so-called “Health Silk Road”, ie the attempt by Beijing to sell its vaccines in exchange for political favors.