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Antony Blinken, United Statesí Secretary of State participates in the Quad foreign ministers' press conference in Melbourne on Friday
The four nations form the "Quad," a bloc of Indo-Pacific democracies created to counter China's growing regional influence. On the question of the alliance, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, whose government is one of Russia's biggest customers for military hardware, emphasised that the Quad partnership was about shared ambitions and "not against somebody."
The Quad partners are united by an "affirmative vision for what the future can bring" and a "commitment to defend the rules-based system that we have spent tremendous time and effort building," he added. China's support for Pacific island countries is "open, transparent and inclusive, without targeting any third party," Zhao said, in an apparent reference to the US and its allies.
Australia has suffered trade retaliation in recent years for angering Beijing over actions that include outlawing covert foreign interference in domestic politics, banning Chinese tech giant Huawei from major infrastructure projects and urging an independent investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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