He will hold talks with counterparts from India, Japan and Australia on the sidelines of a G-20 meeting in New Delhi. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet next week with his counterparts from India, Japan and Australia, on the heels of a flare-up in tensions with China, an official said on Friday.
Mr Blinken will hold the talks with the so-called Quad on March 3 on the sidelines of a Group of 20 meeting in New Delhi, said Mr Donald Lu, the top State Department official on South Asia. The four will hold an hour-long public discussion as part of the Raisina Dialogue, a major Indian conference on geopolitics, he said.
as he sought unity among the four democracies that have each seen friction with a rising China, which has repeatedly condemned the grouping as a move to encircle it.
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