The Quad with Tanvi Madan and Lavina Lee
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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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One of the most interesting strategic developments in the past few years has been the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad—the growing partnership between the United States, Japan, Australia and India. To look at how this institution resurrected itself after a false start back in 2007, what it is and isn't doing now, and whether China is right to look warily at this dialogue, David Priess spoke with Tanvi Madan, a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program and the director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution, and Lavina Lee, a senior lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who was appointed by the defense minister in Australia to be a director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Council in Canberra earlier this year.
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| 0:59.4 | I think the real message that the quad sends to China is that the four states, the most |
| 1:07.9 | capable states the ones with the greatest intention, at least a growing intention, to counter |
| 1:17.8 | Chinese aggressive actions that they're sending this strategic signal that if you continue |
| 1:23.8 | on this way we are being forced to join together to try and deter you from further changing |
| 1:31.2 | the status quo. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm David Priests and this is the LawFair podcast October 20, 2020. |
| 1:40.6 | One of the most interesting strategic developments in the past few years has been the quadrilateral |
| 1:46.2 | security dialogue or quad, the growing partnership between the United States, Japan, Australia |
| 1:53.2 | and India. |
| 1:55.2 | With Secretary of State Pompeo's recent visit to Tokyo for in-person meetings with his |
| 1:59.8 | quad counterparts, it's a great time to step back and look at how this institution resurrected |
| 2:06.3 | itself after a false start back in 2007, what it is and isn't doing now, and whether |
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