Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“[E]ven as Washington seeks to navigate its fraught but improving relationship with Beijing, these meetings represent a strengthening of its network of partnerships intended to counter Chinese influence. While the Quad and Squad are two distinct components of that effort, there is little doubt that Washington’s expanding regional security commitments will do nothing to make Americans safer and will rather serve only to draw them further into a potentially catastrophic great-power confrontation.” (10/29/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-quad-and-the-squad-washingtons-anti-china-coalitions/