USA: Important to work with India given China's aggression

Given China's increasingly aggressive behaviour across the India-Pacific from the Himalayas to the South China Sea, it's more important than ever that we work with like-minded partners such as India, said US State Department on Friday.

Speaking at the Washington Foreign Press Center, a US administration official said that, "And as the United States, Japan, Australia, and India (QUAD) are getting together to cooperate on one issue or another, if there are other countries that want to participate in those discussions or those activities, the door is always open."

"Secretary Pompeo and Minister Jaishankar, alongside their Japanese and Australian partners, met in Tokyo on October sixth for the subsequent Quad meeting of unfamiliar clergymen. Given China's inexorably forceful conduct over the India-Pacific from the Himalayas toward the South China Sea, it's a higher priority than any time in recent memory that we work with similar accomplices, for example,



India." 

Quadrilateral Security Dialog (Quad) is the casual key discourse between India, USA, Japan and Australia. Recently, India had declared the interest of Australia in the forthcoming Malabar practice close by the US and Japan. 

Conversing with media people, the State Department official said the primary idea driving the Quad is one of the energetic majority rules systems cooperating towards a typical vision of a free and open India-Pacific locale.

The official further said that Quad is not an alliance and there's no reciprocal obligation among the countries who are involved.

"Well, on the Quad, I should tell you it's not an alliance. You mentioned that - you said it was an alliance and I want to push back on that. There's nothing about the Quad that is an alliance. It doesn't have - it is not formalized. There's no reciprocal obligation among the countries that are involved. It's not an organization that solicits membership," the official said.