US, India launch maritime surveillance cooperation with Japan, Australia

NEW DELHI: The US, India, Japan and Australia launched on Tuesday a maritime surveillance initiative for the Indo-Pacific region and a series of new collaborations, as their foreign ministers gathered in New Delhi. The meeting took place among members of the four-state strategic security alliance known as the Quad, which was established in 2007 to counter the increased regional economic and military influence of China in Asia. Together, the bloc makes up about a third of the world’s gross domestic product and nearly 2 billion people.

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