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India to Host Controversial Indo-Pacific Meeting Post-2025 Quad Term

4/16/2026

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India plans to host a foreign ministers' meeting in the Indo-Pacific after its 2025 term as the Quad's rotating chair.
The meeting may be presented as a leaders-level discussion despite the absence of top leaders.
Analysts, including Sourabh Gupta of the Institute for China-America Studies, criticize this as superficial.
Gupta calls the move "more farce than tragedy" and questions its effectiveness.

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India plans to host a foreign ministers' meeting in the Indo-Pacific after its 2025 term as the Quad's rotating chair.
The meeting may be presented as a leaders-level discussion despite the absence of top leaders.
Analysts, including Sourabh Gupta of the Institute for China-America Studies, criticize this as superficial.
Gupta calls the move "more farce than tragedy" and questions its effectiveness.