{"id":5400,"date":"2019-02-11T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T00:01:56","slug":"australias-indo-pacific-pitch-whats-in-it-for-the-quad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/australias-indo-pacific-pitch-whats-in-it-for-the-quad\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Indo-Pacific pitch: What\u2019s in it for the Quad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January, at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, Foreign Minister Marise Payne\u00a0enunciated<\/a>\u00a0her government\u2019s pitch to develop closer relations with India. Her speech was an attempt to reassure India and the broader region of Australia\u2019s commitment to maintaining a rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific. This has important implications for the future of the regional security architecture, especially for groups such as the revived Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad).<\/p>\n

Although the Quad\u2019s future, as Jeff Smith\u00a0argues<\/a>, will ultimately depend on China\u2019s actions and the threat perceptions of Australia and India, at the moment both are keen to focus on strengthening the bilateral relationship and extending minilateral and multilateral cooperation through other channels. This works well for both nations as they try to manage relations with China in the lead-up to their general elections.<\/p>\n

Geopolitically speaking, there were four broad takeaways from the minister\u2019s speech:<\/p>\n