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Significance
Australia’s participation ends several years of hesitation among these four democracies regarding substantive deepening of quadrilateral security ties.
Impacts
Bilateral Australian-Indian security and economic cooperation will increase as India adopts a more firmly adversarial approach to China.
China has few options left to pressure India and Australia to pull back from the Quad.
Washington will proactively push for deepened quadrilateral security cooperation under the Biden administration.
Keywords:
Australia,
China,
AP,
India,
Japan,
United States,
international relations,
defence,
foreign policy,
military,
security
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