Quad foreign ministers announce new joint initiatives in Indo-Pacific

Foreign ministers from the Quad security partnership announced new collaborative projects following their meeting in New Delhi. The diplomats launched an energy security initiative for the Indo-Pacific region and declared their intention to interconnect maritime monitoring capabilities among the four member nations. The Quad is a strategic security dialogue between the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, formed to counter China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region through cooperation on defense, technology, and economic issues.