Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his counterparts from Australia, India, and Japan on Tuesday to discuss countering China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. The ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) and indicated that a leaders' summit would be held in India this year.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to State Department staff while next to his family, at the State Department, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to State Department staff while next to his family, at the State Department, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to State Department staff while next to his family, at the State Department, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Tuesday with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration kicked off its formal foreign policy engagements in discussions withThe ministers reaffirmed their countries’ commitment to the format and its goals and indicated their leaders would meet in the coming months. The grouping of the four countries has been seen by many as an initiative to counter or at least slow China’s increasing assertiveness and aggressiveness in the region, something over which President Donald Trump and his predecessors, including former President Joe Biden, have all expressed deep concern.as America’s top diplomat — suggests it will remain a priority for Trump. And, in a joint statement released after the meeting, the ministers suggested a new Quad summit would be held this year in India, continuing an upgrade of the relationship from foreign ministers to leaders initiated by the Biden administration. “Our four nations maintain our conviction that international law, economic opportunity, peace, stability, and security in all domains including the maritime domain underpin the development and prosperity of the peoples of the Indo-Pacific,” they said.Trump pardons founder of Silk Road website “We also strongly oppose any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or coercion,” they said in a not-so-subtle reference to China. The two-paragraph joint statement was the only indication of how the meeting unfolded as none of the ministers — Rubio, Australian Penny Wong, Indian S. Jaishankar or Japanese Iwaya Takeshi — spoke as they opened their meeting at the State Department. Instead they stood silent and expressionless in front of their respective flags before journalists were ushered out. And, none of them spoke at photo opportunities before individual meetings that Rubio hosted afterward.in the Indian Ocean. Its members stress its diplomatic nature and broad focus on regional issues, including infrastructure, humanitarian aid, disaster relief, climate change and maritime security. Even though security is only part of the mix, the Quad is a major component of the American strategy to counter China’s growing assertiveness and vast territorial claims in the region, including to virtually all of the The strategic element to the Quad has prompted China to accuse the four countries of attempting to form an “Asian NATO,” though it is a very different construction and has no mutual-defense pact, a key component to the During his time in the Senate, Rubio was a “China hawk” and he has been sanctioned by the Chinese government for outspoken remarks about the country’s human rights record,Earlier Tuesday, Rubio made his first appearance at the State Department as secretary of state and called on U.S. diplomats to forcefully defend and execute Trump’s “America First” policies. “The voters decide the course of our nation, both domestically and abroad, and they have elected Donald J. Trump as our president when it comes to foreign policy on a very clear mission,” Rubio told them. “And that mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is centered on one thing, and that is the advancement of our national interest, which clearly defined through his campaign as anything that makes us stronger or safer or more prosperous. And that will be our mission, that will be our job.” Trump has been publicly skeptical of the value of the State Department since his first term in office and, as he has done with other agencies, accused some in the diplomatic corps of working to blunt or derail his policy priorities. Rubio paid tribute to the men and women of the State Department, calling them “the greatest, the most effective, the most talented, the most experienced diplomatic corps in the history of the world.”— demanded by Trump’s team — of career diplomats from senior positions in the State Department bureaucracy and U.S. embassies around the world. The full extent of the resignations sought by the incoming administration remained unclear on Tuesday but began in earnest on Friday when a large number of career diplomats holding politically appointed posts, such as undersecretaries and assistant secretaries of state, were told to resign. On Monday, the demand for resignations grew to include career diplomats serving as ambassadors as well as lower-ranking staffers.
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