{"id":1142,"date":"2026-05-28T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:55:34","slug":"quad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/quad\/","title":{"rendered":"Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Quad<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quad is an\u00a0<strong>informal strategic dialogue<\/strong>\u00a0between\u00a0<strong>India, USA,\u00a0Japan\u00a0and Australia\u00a0<\/strong>to work for a<strong>\u00a0free, open,\u00a0prosperous\u00a0and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Quad began as a loose partnership after the\u00a0<strong>2004 Indian Ocean tsunami,<\/strong>\u00a0when the four countries joined together to provide humanitarian and disaster\u00a0assistance\u00a0to the affected region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was\u00a0formalised\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2007,\u00a0<\/strong>but then\u00a0fell\u00a0dormant for\u00a0nearly a\u00a0decade.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The group gained momentum in\u00a0<strong>2017<\/strong>\u00a0amid China&#8217;s growing influence in the region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quad About<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}