(Melbourne Comprehensive) Foreign Minister of the United States, Australia, Japan, and India holds a "Quad Safety Dialogue" talks in Melbourne on Friday to promise to deepen cooperation and ensure that it is ensuredThe Asia -Pacific region is not "coercion" and studies the cooperation in strengthening climate change, crown disease and other threats.
Foreign Minister of the Four Kingdoms also promised to cooperate in humanitarian rescue, anti -terrorism, network and maritime security, and global supply chain challenges.Australian Foreign Minister Payne, Japanese Foreign Minister Lin Fangzheng and Indian Foreign Minister Su Jesheng attended the meeting.
U.S. Secretary of State Brillings answered that reporters said that confrontation with China in India -Pacific region is inevitable: "Nothing is inevitable. Speaking, in recent years, China has been in China and regions in China and regions in recent years.The actions are getting stronger and stronger, and we are all worried about this. "
Brinkee said in an interview with newspapers on the eve of the talks that although Washington currently focuses on dealing with Russia's threat to Ukraine, it is longer for a long timeChallenges are China's progress and challenges to "traditional order".
He said: "In my opinion, there is no doubt that over time, China's ambition is to become regional and even the world's leading military, economy, diplomacy, and political power."
Although Russia and Western countries are currently in Ukraine's confrontation, they are not within the range of the QUAD mechanism, the Ukrainian crisis that is constantly upgraded is also one of the important agenda.Brinken believes that Moscow's assembly of troops in Russia and Ukraine is challenging the rules -based international order, which is exactly what QUAD wants to maintain.
Brinken said at the opening ceremony: "This includes the right to support all countries to choose its own road, not to be coerced, and to ensure that sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected.In Europe, or anywhere in the world. "
Brinkee and Payne held earlier.The international order of "we work hard".
Brinton hopes that the United States and Australia have cooperated on the crown disease epidemic, climate change and emerging technologies; Payne said that it will bring the AUKUS agreement and the "more than one" autocratic regime.Discuss the challenge.
Payne said: "In the current world environment, more than one authoritarian regime is reflecting ourselves as challenges. North Korea and China are part of our discussion today. We strongly support the United States in dealing with these challenges.Leaders. "
Although China is the focus of the Sifang talks, the Foreign Minister of the Four countries shows that the focus of the Melbourne conference is actual cooperation, such as reaching consistency on technical standards, and cooperation on hygiene issues and climate change.Payne said that the four countries will strengthen cooperation in the network and counter -terrorism, jointly respond to humanitarianism and disaster rescue in the region, as well as cracking down on illegal fishing.
Generally, the heads of the four countries will hold a summit in Japan in May this year, so the foreign minister talks may not announce a new commitment.
