Toward Decline
How the Quad Can Deliver in a New Strategic Era
Why it matters
The Quad's institutional fracture—absent leaders' summit since Sept 2024, India-US tensions under Trump 2.0, and divergent strategic outlooks on Iran/Ukraine—signals erosion of the multilateral architecture Australia depends on to balance Chinese power in the Indo-Pacific. Loss of annual summits and coherence failures reduce the Quad's capacity to coordinate responses to Taiwan crises, PLA expansion, or supply-chain disruptions affecting Australian trade and security.
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