The foreign ministers of Australia, Japan, India and the United States met in Tokyo last week, with an agenda full of skidmarks from the past. Its aim is to form a new alliance straight from the tired, old, Yankee song book but with a new name “The Quadrilateral Dialogue” (AKA The Quad)
Gregory Clark, a former Australian diplomat and university president based in Japan, provides us with a background history lesson and home truths absent from media and commentary in Australia.
