Pompeo meets Asian ‘Quad’ allies in Tokyo with eyes on China

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Tokyo, Oct 6 (AFP/APP):US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks on Tuesday with key Asia-Pacific allies in Tokyo, presenting a united front on the regional challenge posed by an increasingly assertive China.

The top US diplomat is meeting his Japanese, Australian and Indian counterparts on a trip that was scaled back following the coronavirus crisis in Washington, where President Donald Trump and a raft of staff and advisors have contracted Covid-19. Stops in South Korea and Mongolia have been scrapped, but Pompeo said the meeting of the so-called Quad had taken time to put together and was expected to produce “some significant announcements”.

Pompeo is the first senior US official to visit Japan since Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga took office last month, and he said he was confident Tokyo and Washington were on the same page. “In his first statement after assuming office, Prime Minister Suga described the free and open Indo-Pacific as ‘the foundation of regional peace and stability’. I could not agree more,” Pompeo said at the start of talks with Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi.

“I would only add, the foundation’s cornerstone is the US-Japan relationship and the security and prosperity it has provided for our peoples,” Pompeo said. Pompeo is a vociferous critic of China on issues from security to human rights to the coronavirus pandemic, which Trump’s administration has sought to blame squarely on Beijing ahead of the US election on November 3. Pompeo has led an international campaign for other nations to shun China, including its technology.

Balancing act

Despite Pompeo’s promise of “significant announcements”, no joint statement or press conference is expected after the talks, which appeared more symbolic than immediately substantive. The Quad grouping was heavily promoted by Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe as a way for the region’s major democracies to step up cooperation in the face of military and other threats posed by China.

Suga faces a delicate balancing act, seeking on one hand to continue Tokyo’s gradual improvement of ties with Beijing, while also backing allies Washington, New Delhi and Sydney — all currently locked in rows with China. He told reporters on Monday he would seek to “promote a free and open Indo-Pacific” but also “build stable relations with neighbouring countries including China and Russia”.

A Japanese diplomat, briefing media ahead of the meetings, said the ministers would discuss issues including virus measures, as well as maritime and cyber security. The shared values of the alliance have “gained increasing significance in the post-coronavirus world”, the diplomat said.

“At this foreign ministers’ meeting, we expect the participants to confirm their enhanced coordination to realise that vision and to further broaden coordination with more countries.” The first Quad meeting took place in New York last year, and there are moves to make the gathering an annual event. Pompeo will also meet Suga on Tuesday, heading back to Washington in the late evening.

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  1. samir sardana 12 October, 2020 at 09:28 Reply

    The CCP and the PLA have to understand that,the Indians and the Indian nation,will ultimately become the
    lapdogs,of the USA and Israel.

    If you analyse Indian History – this culture of servility and slavery of the Indian Weasels,will become evident, even to a lay reader.Americans know Indian History,and understand the Indian DNA,better than
    the Indians.

    The years of Nehru and Indira Gandhi,and their foreign Policy and Strategic goals,were conditioned by the Cold War – wherein the Indians had OUTSOURCED their strategic thinking,to the USSR.It was a romantic utopian age – which is dead.dindooohindoo

    Most of the so called Indian Thinkers ( Excluding Nehru and Indira Gandhi),were Soviet Spies.NAM was the epitome of the concoction,of the vacillating Indian Weasels – who could NOT take a stand with either side – and hence – NAM (Numb,Asinine and Mad).

    That was the age of the dubious sophistry,of Indian Philosophy,which thrives in a culture of vacillation,chaos and war.

    Then came Modi,the son of a dishwasher,and like many Indian Kings,in the last 2000 years,a man of limited IQ,but overweening ambition and dreams of divinity – which were accurately assessed,by the Americans and the Israelis.

    The Russians have seen this flaw in the Indian DNA and Elite,and are slowly disengaging from India.

    India needs a massive restructuring and refurbishment,of its military technology – which CAN ONLY BE DONE,BY THE USA and ISRAEL.

    Further,the economic future of the Indian Nation,lies with the Americans.

    They have to ally,with the Americans and Israelis.

    The Servile Indian People,as a race, are in love with the White Man,and are BASICALLY ANTI-ISLAM,and idolise,the Israeli brutalities in Palestine.

    The Persians were living in fantasy land with the Indians,and supporting the Indians against Pakistan (which is the neighbour of Iran). They ACTUALLY thought that they had a COMMON CULTURE AND HISTORY and that the WEST DID NOT understand them ! The Persians thought that their DNA and the Oil sales to India,will make India a RELIABLE PARTNER.

    BUT THE INDIANS WILTED UNDER AMERICAN PRESSURE ! What were the Persians thinking ? Who Played whom ?

    The Persians forgot what their Great King Cyrus,said about Hindoos

    The wisdom of the “children of Cyrus,Darius and Xerxes”,encapsulates the “transcendence of Human thought”, the “Deuterosis of the Dindoo”, as under:

    A “Persian dictionary”,titled “Lughet-e-Kishwari”,published in Lucknow in 1964,gives the meaning of the word Hindu as “chore [thief], dakoo [dacoit],raahzan [waylayer], and ghulam [slave].

    Cyrus was also betrayed by the Jews of Israel – but the Persians HAVE NOT LEARNT from their mistakes – but, to be fair,they have to keep experimenting,as they are in an isolated cluster,in the world

    Today,India Supports Israel – UNCONDITIONALLY.The Israelis have made the HINDUS BELIEVE,THAT THEY ARE 1 OF THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL ! Just like they conned Cyrus,to believe,that he was the Messiah, named in the Torah (forged by the Jews of Israel),to rebuild the Temple of Solomon.

    India is a Poor Backward nation of heathens and menials,ruled by corrupt Politicians and Banias.All their ill gotten wealth,is laundered in the West.The CIA has DIRT on EVERY Indian politician and tycoon.The Indian Media is worthless.

    Such a nation is a PRIME CANDIDATE,TO BE A PERMANENT US ALLY.The Americans waited and watched from 1947,as they knew the fatal flaw of the Indian DNA – and they see the logical corollary,in the state of India – as of Today

    No Indian IN HISTORY,HAS EVER STOOD UP TO COLONIALISM,OR WHITE POWER.1947 occurred as a by-product of the fatigue of WW2,and Gandhi was a great man – BUT A MAN ON WHOM BRIT INTEL had ENOUGH DIRT (from his days in Natal),which is Y,Gandhi ALLOWED THE EXPORT OF INDIANS AS
    CANON FODDER IN WW2.

    If Gandhi had opposed it – India would have been free earlier,Britian would be ruled by Hitler’s sons,and the Japanese would be in Assam

    IT IS A WASTE OF TIME,FOR THE PLA TO COUNSEL OR NEGOTIATE,WITH INDIA.IT IS A US STOOGE AND A US LAPDOG.

    Israel sees the existential threat from Russia and China.Providence will make PRC,Iran and Paistan coagulate into 1 Axis – which will ally,with Russia,Syria and Turkey,as the 2nd axis,in the Middle East.

    On the other side,you have the USA,EU,Israel,Saudia,Kuwait and the Haeshemites.The Saudis have only 1 military aim – which is the destruction of Persia – who they see,as the transcendental enemies of the Arabs (First) and Islam (Suuni Islam) – in the 2nd instance.The Saudis believe that the Persians CREATED Shiaism,to DESTROY Sunni Islam,and Revile the sacred personalities,of Sunni Islam (as the Persian Revenge,against the Arabs).

    This alliance of Axis-es and their “almost mutual destruction”,is prophecised in the Torah and Islamic scriptures – and which will end, in the doom of Israel,Christianity and many other nations.

    COVID is the time for the PLA to strike – India is doomed – the winter is about to start !

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