USSC Research Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence program Tom Corben talks to TaiwanPlus News in an interview about the recent revival of minilateral collaborations across the Indo-Pacific region. Asked about the reason for the Quad grouping between Australia, India, Japan and the United States, Tom says "there's a couple of things the four countries have in common. At the very basic level, these are the four largest maritime democracies in the Indo-Pacific... but they also critically share a convergence of strategic perspectives when it comes to the nature of the regional order that the four countries would like to see; as well as the measures that the four countries need to take, not only individually but also in concert with one another, to make sure that order is realised."
Will 'minilateral' groups stabilise the Indo-Pacific?
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