Quad foreign ministers meet in Tokyo for talks on maritime security, cyber

29/7/2024 11:44

        Foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the United States - a grouping known as the 'Quad' - met in Tokyo on Monday for talks expected to focus on maritime security and initiatives to build up cyber defences.
        
        The talks attended by Australia's Penny Wong, India's Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan's Yoko Kamikawa and Antony Blinken from the U.S., follow security discussions between Tokyo and Washington on Sunday where the allies labelled China the "greatest strategic challenge" facing the region.
        
        "We all know our region and our world are being reshaped. We all understand we face the most confronting circumstances in our region in decades," Wong said in opening remarks at the start of the Quad talks on Monday.
        
        "We all cherish the region's peace, stability and prosperity and we all know it is not a given, we all know we can't take it for granted."