Anthony Albanese has described the QUAD meeting as an \u201cimportant\u201d engagement he\u2019s \u201chopeful\u201d will continue after doubts over its longevity.<\/p>\n
The QUAD \u2014 Quadrilateral Security Dialogue \u2014 is an international engagement made up of India, Japan, Australia, and the United States.<\/p>\n
However, it has been under a cloud since US President Donald Trump returned to office and tensions boiled between America and India earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Asked while attending the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, the PM backed calls from Japan\u2019s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for it to continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe QUAD is important for us to engage – Australia, the US, Japan and India,\u201d the PM said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hopeful that there will be a meeting in the first quarter, I would hope, of next year. Prime Minister Modi is due to host the QUAD meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PM added that he welcomed US President Donald Trump meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Korea after tensions between the two superpowers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a busy summit season. President Trump has a busy period. He is travelling to Japan but also having the meeting in Korea with President Xi. We welcome the fact that the leaders of the two largest economies in the world are having that direct engagement,\u201d the PM said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese has described the QUAD meeting as an \u201cimportant\u201d engagement he\u2019s \u201chopeful\u201d will continue after doubts over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,43,44,84,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-243566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}