The Big Picture - Quad-Plus Diplomacy

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently held a video conference with his counterparts from India, Australia, Brazil, Israel, Japan and South Korea on issues related to the coronavirus pandemic. Pompeo and his counterparts discussed the importance of international cooperation, transparency, and accountability in combating the COVID-19 pandemic and in addressing its causes. The meeting also discussed collaboration toward preventing future global health crises and reaffirming the importance of the rules-based international order. This meeting comes in the backdrop of another meeting held earlier this month between senior officials of the four “Quad” countries. Quad meetings are no longer unusual. But off-late we've seen the Quad countries widen their scope and add other like minded countries, which is special. On this edition of The Big Picture we analyse Quad-Plus Diplomacy.

Guests -
1- Patrick Gerard Buchan, Director, Center for Strategic & International Studies
2- Abhijit Singh, Head, Maritime Policy Initiative, ORF
3- Vishnu Prakash, Former Ambassador

Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

Producer - Sagheer Ahmad

[v_mani]

Ambassador vishnu prakash puts the thing in perspective

[pranavkumar]

This is only forum where we a mature discussion

[teenabishnoi]

Ambassador sir, you are great
And very very thanks for good discussion

[AnilKumar-itds]

Great discussion thankyu very much

[YashwantSingh]

Too many cooks spoil the broth...this is exactly what is happening in the Indian ocean region right now. There is plethora of organisations coming up in Indian ocean in the last 3 decades. This just creates more chaos rather then stability in the region. In my opinion quad needs to more substantive which it is not right now in its goals and aspirations in the region. Let ASEAN become the face of Indian ocean region and Quad be its brain and power. Quad containing the biggest democracies and ASEAN having the growing economies of the Indian ocean region can together create a synergy that will be beneficial for the future of the region. And most importantly, India can act as the link between both these groups.

[Rahulpriye]

Consolidation is little difficult but much more important than merely expanding the scope of the grouping like quad or quad plus

[jyotishnaseema]

Quad group is helpfull and tackle this challenge pandemic disease.

[vkmishra]

Missing RSTV vishesh and in anyway thankyou RSTV team for providing us such a enlightened content...