By describing Quad as a confrontational block, China has displayed the mentality of the middle kingdom, where Beijing rose quickly in the center of the world and the rest was only Vassal countries.
The Jinping XI regime and Warrior Wolf they have taken Potshots in Quad Grouping since their revival in 2017. From the Interest Description of Foreign Minister Wang Yi from Quad as Seafoam in the Pacific or Indian Ocean to confirm NATO new in the past on Wednesday called it a product From the cold war mentality and confrontational blocks against China. Adendum to fast fire thorns is that China seeks peace, development and cooperation and does not target any third country. Quad’s foreign minister meets in Melbourne tomorrow.
Chinese statements at night Quad meetings are designed not only to place countries participate in defensive but also ASEAN countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines, which have faced the expansion of the Chinese Communist Party in the South China Sea. The message to ASEAN is not infected with Quad and remains in the defined parameters of the Beijing chopsticks.
The fact is that the quad focus is on constructive cooperation agenda with Indo-Pacific partners on health and vaccine support, disaster assistance, climate change, emerging and critical technology, infrastructure development, and indo-Pacific free and open. This is very contrast to China which is engaged in rapid military expansionism and improvement in the region and outside, interesting world to other cold war era.
Quad works outside the post-cold war alliance. It is China who want to maintain the old order and keep India confined in the South Asian box by keeping the Pakistani proxy in a permanent confrontation condition with New Delhi. In addition to help Islamabad build its nuclear ability and its shipping platform, China has muscular Military Pakistan by giving a self-propelled Howitzer to the Army, JF-17 fighters for the Air Force and Stealth submarine and submarines to the Navy. It has been using Pakistan and Myanmar to provide access to the Arab Sea and Bay of Bengal and Indian Pincer. Seeing politics in good global grouping such as Quad very much from the thought of cold war because it took place against globalization and rising power. It is China who still wants World War II winners to be at high tables and do not want to produce room for middle strength such as India, Japan, Australia and Brazil. It was the reason for the UNSC reform stuck over the past two decades.
By describing Quad as a confrontational block, China has displayed the mentality of the middle kingdom, where Beijing rose quickly in the center of the world and the rest was only Vassal countries. Not wanting Japan to throw away its personal doctrine despite challenging Tokyo to the Senkaku Islands dispute, just as Australia wants to remain beef providers, pigs, cheese and wine. In the case of India, China has forbare its expansionist teeth by trying unilaterally changing land position in Ladakh East and almost changing unfined lines from the actual control (LAC) into the control line (LOC). It was accused of India to be pulled into the US promoting the old cold war mentality in Quad, but did not have doubts forcing a 1959 line that had been rejected at Ladakh Lac.
Under, Quad must move forward in translating the agenda on the land in the Indo-Pacific or the others will be accused of all talks and no action. Eternal fence, ASEAN countries will only advance in support if the quad takes off in Australia.