QUAD started in 2007 as a security dialogue between 4 nations; US, Australia, Japan & India. Its focus was on South China seas, where Indian Ocean meets the Pacific Ocean, the waters where China always showed its aggression. The QUAD initiative was the brainchild of the them Japanese Prime Minister, to be a counter to the Chinese aggression. Due to geopolitics, this initiative went dormant by very next year.
Post cold-war era, unbeknown to many, China was building up as a global super power (including military). 25 years later, with autocratic Xi Jinping at the top, its aggressive expansionist capabilities have come out in open.
Having seen, what was feared had happened, the dialogue got rejuvenated in 2018 & it again became an active endeavour between the 4 nations to protect the nations (and ally’s) on the brim of South China Seas,
Later to 2015, India tried to cosy up to China and its top leaders have had many public shows of the the ‘second honeymoon’ (first was between Nehru & Zouh Enlai in 1950s) but all that had ended now with the fiasco at Galwan, Ladakh.
An active QUAD is a strong deterrent to Chinese expansionist ambitions. The oceans had always been a focal point, both in peace & war; and jointly balancing them, can take care of any aggression.
It is time, India went into QUAD in full hog.
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