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Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) performs an important role in India’s strategic balancing act to withstand the dominance of China in Asia. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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The Quad of India, the United States, Japan and Australia lapsed in 2007–08, revived in 2017 and met at leaders' level from 2021. It has no treaty, secretariat or defence clause. Facing a China whose economy was nearly five times larger in 2025, India uses it as one balancing instrument among several: important in effect,…

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  • How the Quad serves India's balancing
  • What kind of balancing?
  • The limits
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