Wilmington Declaration: Biden’s Last Summit Augurs Well for Quad’s Future
By Jagannath Panda [Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs at ISDP]
▶ the Wilmington declaration was candid in highlighting the constructive impact of the “personal” in political affairs
▶ the Quad’s minilateral characteristics, from flexibility to ad hoc nature, have highlighted it as an essence of the US pivot to the new “latticework” institutional approach for the emerging Indo-Pacific architecture
▶ What helps the Quad in establishing its soft security-focused framework is the lack of pressure on the hard security front
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