U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that China’s increasingly assertive actions across the region make it more critical than ever for four Indo-Pacific nations known as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) to cooperate to protect their partners and their people from Chinese “exploitation, corruption, and coercion.”
Pompeo attended the Quad ministerial meeting during his visit to Tokyo, Japan, from Oct. 4 to 6. In his remarks at the meeting, he said, “It is more critical now than ever that we collaborate to protect our people and partners from the CCP’s exploitation, corruption, and coercion.”
