Quad Summit in Wilmington, Delaware

• The Quad Leaders’ Summit (Australia, India, Japan, and the United States) will convene in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on September 21.
• The meeting marks a full circle since the first in-person Summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden in 2021.
• The meeting is set against global challenges and transitions in leadership among some member-nations.
• India, originally slated to host this year’s summit, deferred to the U.S. and will now host the next meeting.
• The summit aims to reinforce the Quad’s framework on maritime domain awareness (MDA), linking regional security, supply chains, infrastructure, and technology initiatives.
• The Quad Foreign Ministers announced the expansion of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) to the Indian Ocean region.
• The summit is expected to explore the potential launch of the Quad Maritime Legal Dialogue under the Quad Maritime Security Working Group.
• The South Asia programme will be operationalised through the Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) based in India.
• The Quad’s expansive agenda reflects its ambition to address a wide array of critical issues.
• The Quad is evolving rapidly as a benchmark framework for ensuring a peaceful and stable Indo-Pacific.
• The Quad senses an opportunity to play a crucial role in regional security as regional supply chains and infrastructure networks adapt.
• The Quad summit serves as a prelude to the inaugural Summit of the Future, which aims to reshape global governance.