EEUU, Japan, Australia and India mantuvieron the first meeting of the Quad group, which seeks to counter China’s influence

United States, Japan, Australia and India will celebrate the quad’s first reunion, a new group that has between its main objectives counteracted China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

At a posterior press conference, Jake Sullivan, National Security Assistant assessor, Jake Sullivan, described some of the blankets as taking place in a virtual manner. and indicates that the four states “do not have illusions” with respect to the Asian giant.

Y, in a velada reference to Beijing, expresses: “Hablaron of the competition between autocracy and democracy and agree that democracy is the best system to complement the people”.

The official said that he would also be aborted “regional key figures relate to the freedom of navigation and against coercion in the Sea of ​​South China, the nuclear aspect of North Korea and the Gulf of Myanmar”.

Referring to the first high-level meeting that the Biden administration held in China on March 18 and 19 in Alaska, Sullivan assured that over 50 days of governing, United States “will hold a meeting of a strong position”. To establish its position, it refers to the prognostic updates of economic growth for the country – will be expanded by 6 per cent, according to the OECD – and to the evacuation process against the COVID-19, which acquires a superior velocity in the hope initially.

“As the President said, the United States will hold a competition with China. We hope to win this competition “, said the official.

Consulted on the step taken by India to block the possibility that its mobile telephony operators do not use telecommunications equipment manufactured by Huawei, Sullivan said it was “A sovereign decision”, but “certainly consistent with our decisions and what we say” about the company.

‘It has demonstrated our concern over Huawei and its relations with the elements of the government and the Chinese armed forces”, Agregó.

At the reunion, the countries also agreed to launch a joint initiative for the production in India of 1,000 million vacancies against the COVID-19 for the finals of 2022. “The Quad is compromising to reduce its numbers to ASEAN, the Indo-Pacific and más allá ”, dijo Sullivan.

In parallel, the Casa Blanca announced in a statement on its support for the Indian company Biological E Ltd. for “produce at least 1,000 million covid-19 dose doses for finals of 2022 ”, central dose in the dose of a Johnson & Johnson dose.

Manufacturing will meet the financial responsibility of Japan and the International Finance Corporation for the United States Development Fund, which projects developing countries in development.

Australia will raise another 77 million dollars, summing up an earlier 407 million dollar compromise, to ensure that only vacancies are registered that are administered in the southernmost Asian, say the White House.

At the same time, Japan will raise 41 million dollars for the distribution of vacancies, which requires temperature control.

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