Biden to host Quad summit in Delaware on September 21

The upcoming summit will focus on strengthening strategic alignment among the four nations and advancing a shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

Updated on: Sep 12, 2024, 20:36:05 IST

By Shishir Gupta

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US President Joe Biden will host the fourth in-person Quad Leaders Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, on September 21, the White House announced Thursday. The summit will bring together Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan.

Leaders of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) from left to right, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AP)

It will also be the last gathering of all the current leaders of the Quad alliance, as both Biden and Japan's Fumio Kishida are stepping down from office. Biden recently announced that he will not run again for a second stint at the White House. Kishida also made his plans clear of not seeking re-election as the head of the Liberal Democratic Party.

HT reported on Sunday about Prime Minister Modi's upcoming US visit for the Quad Summit.

The upcoming summit will focus on strengthening strategic alignment among the four nations and advancing a shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Discussions will cover key areas, including health security, disaster response, maritime security, infrastructure development, emerging technologies, climate change, clean energy, and cybersecurity.

"The Quad Leaders Summit will focus on bolstering the strategic convergence among our countries, advancing our shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region, and delivering concrete benefits for partners in the Indo-Pacific in key areas," White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

India is set to host the next Quad Leaders Summit.

In July, foreign ministers from the Quad nations held wide-ranging talks in Tokyo, focusing on strengthening cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. In a clear message to China, the ministers reaffirmed their commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, pledging to work towards a region free from "coercion" and where no country dominates others.

The foreign ministers also announced plans to expand the Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) program to the Indian Ocean, a key step in enhancing monitoring of the region's strategic waters.

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Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More