Therefore, in such a scenario, the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific is centred on cobbling together these strong states and curtailing the escalation of the Dragon’s aggressive actions in the region. The relations between Australia and China also have hit the lowest level in decades as there was a diplomatic and economic freeze between the countries for over two years. Additionally, the Sino-Japan relations are also being worrisome due to China’s muscle flexing in the region, as Beijing has been an aggressive bully that is trying to establish rules and laws that favour its grandiose plans in the East China Sea where it attempts to challenge the status quo by coercion. Furthermore, as the Sino-Indian relations plummet further, given the Chinese stealth encroachments in the Indian Territory and the economic hostilities between both, Beijing’s growing power projection proficiencies are greatly impacting the Indian strategic and security circles. In this context, especially in the post-Covid world, the United States perceives the relative influence of China to be burgeoning and it views Beijing as positioning itself as a major strategic competitor on the world stage. Quad needs to tread these waters successfully in order to curtail China’s long standing ambition of being the world hegemon. Consequently, it is understood that handling the rise of a discreetly pugnacious China is profoundly significant for the safety, security, and stability of the Indo-Pacific region. Beijing’s rise as a political, economic, scientific, and military powerhouse has given rise to a tectonic shift in the power equilibrium in the region. The Indo-Pacific, which is technically a mental map, is a focal region of international attention and the intensification of China’s growth as a prospective hegemon has had the most profound impact on the security structure and the geopolitical backdrop of the twenty-first century. Thus, briefly, the Indo-Pacific strategy comprises of five elements: advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific, building connections within and beyond the region, bolstering Indo-Pacific security, driving regional prosperity, and building regional resilience to transnational threats.
It first acted as a consultative and an informal group when it came into existence post the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and later underwent a transformation in 2017, when the countries’ interests converged vis-à-vis a belligerent China’s assertive rise in the region and their shared commitment towards a rules-based order, a free and open Indo-Pacific (that is a veiled reference to China’s aggressive activities in the region), and co-operative action against terrorism. the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is widely seen as noteworthy, given its resolve and potential to influence the geopolitical structure and geo-economics of the Indo-Pacific region. The summit level dialogue comprising of India, US, Australia and Japan i.e.
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