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The challenge of holding the Quad together

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Pant, H. V., & Haldar, S. (2026, November 13). The challenge of holding the Quad together. The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-challenge-of-holding-the-quad-together/article71698092.ece

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The Hindu · collected 2026-11-13 · by Harsh V Pant, Sayantan Haldar

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U.S. Secretary of State announced that the leaders of the Quad nations—India, Australia, Japan, and the U.S.—are scheduled to meet in Manila this November during the ASEAN Summit. This event marks the first summit-level meeting since Donald Trump began his second term and the first attended by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The report highlights how the grouping survived a period of intense strategic turbulence in 2025 caused by shifting U.S. priorities and changing bilateral dynamics with India. Despite these tensions, the article emphasizes that the group maintained operational synergies, specifically noting the elevation of its maritime domain awareness initiative to a surveillance collaboration framework in May 2026.
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Harsh V Pant
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Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the leaders of the four Quad countries — India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. — are expected to meet in Manila in November, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit.
2026-11-13 · assertive framing · The challenge of holding the Quad together
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Sayantan Haldar
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Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the leaders of the four Quad countries — India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. — are expected to meet in Manila in November, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit.
2026-11-13 · assertive framing · The challenge of holding the Quad together
The only article under this byline in the corpus.

Topics

India Japan Quad Quad Leaders’ Summit U.S.

Subjects

Quad ORG · 4× U.S. GPE · 4× India GPE · 3× Japan GPE · 2× Atlanta GPE · 1× Australia GPE · 1× Donald Trump PERSON · 1× Japanese NORP · 1× Manila GPE · 1× State ORG · 1×

Narrative

While India was expected to host the subsequent Quad Leaders’ Summit, the grouping underwent a period of intense strategic turbulence in 2025, on account of Washington’s shifting geopolitical priorities and changing political dynamics in its bilateral relations with Quad members, especially India.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-11-14
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the leaders of the four Quad countries — India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. — are expected to meet in Manila in November, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit.
2026-11-14 · The Hindu
The challenge of holding the Quad together · assertive framing

Claims (8 extracted, 1 hedged)

Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, the U.S. Secretary of State announced that the leaders of the four Quad countries — India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. — are expected to meet in Manila in November, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit. asserted
leaders → speak → Summit
The announcement is significant, as this would be the first summit-level meeting of the Quad leaders since Donald Trump began his second term as U.S. President. asserted
Trump → begin → President
It would also be the first such summit attended by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi since she assumed office. asserted
she → attend → office
The last Quad Leaders’ Summit was held in Wilmington in 2024, when Joe Biden was U.S. President and Fumio Kishida was Japan’s Prime Minister. asserted
Kishida → hold → 2024
While India was expected to host the subsequent Quad Leaders’ Summit, the grouping underwent a period of intense strategic turbulence in 2025, on account of Washington’s shifting geopolitical priorities and changing political dynamics in its bilateral relations with Quad members, especially India. asserted
grouping → expect → members
However, this did not result in complete collapse of the grouping. asserted
this → result → grouping
Apart from the leader-level summit, the group has remained successful in continuing its operational synergies in its various initiatives. asserted
group → remain → initiatives
This was most evident in the elevation of the Quad’s Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness initiative to the Indo-Pacific Maritime Surveillance Collaboration framework, launched in New Delhi in May 2026, following the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. uncertain
This → launch → Meeting
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