India, June 14 -- Since his return to the White House in 2025, Trump has refused to participate in a leaders' summit, negatively impacting the Quad and degrading its geostrategic value

When the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue - commonly known as the Quad - was revived in earnest in 2017, it was hailed as one of the most consequential strategic architectures of the 21st century. A coalition of four like-minded democracies - the United States, India, Japan and Australia - bound by shared values and a common concern about China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, the Quad was meant to be the geopolitical cornerstone of a free and open maritime order. By 2021, it had been elevated to leaders' summits, producing ambitious agendas on ...