President Biden’s decision to shorten his upcoming Asia trip and skip a meeting of leaders of the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia “Quad” group to deal with the debt crisis in Washington marks a blow to Washington’s campaign to show itself a reliable partner for countering China’s increasingly aggressive rise in the region and on the world stage.
if the Chinese were to start to use military force in the region,” he said. “Right now, the Quad is not an alliance, but it could become an alliance if the Chinese go on a war footing.
“It shows that when its own domestic political demands override its international agenda, the U.S. will turn back on its commitment with no hesitation,” Chen Hong, director of the Australian Studies Center at East China Normal University, told the Beijing news website.
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