‘A World Order That Favors Freedom’: QUAD Foreign Ministers Meet in Melbourne, Australia

(L-R) Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women Marise Payne, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Melbourne Commonwealth Parliament Office in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 11, 2022. APP Image/Pool, David Crosling

The four foreign ministers of the QUAD nations, Australia, the United States, India, and Japan, met on Feb. 11 in Melbourne for the fourth iteration of the talks.

High on the agenda are issues like regional security—including Russia, China, and North Korea—economic engagement, new technologies, climate change, humanitarian issues, and the response to COVID-19.