Thread by @tanvi_madan

🧵 for the many Quad newbies, who will be joining us this week due to the 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸 summit. 1/

For a quick primer, here are a series of Quad charts
Part I: brook.gs/3jzZB52
Part II: brook.gs/2SFiAzo
Part III:

https://twitter.com/tanvi_madan/status/1362952760908525569?s=20

2/ Some articles on the Quad
Origins: bit.ly/3l3Mr1R
Significance: bit.ly/3rMhcdS
Promise: bit.ly/3rBEIu7
Progress: bit.ly/2NaFwaA
Potential areas of coop: HA/DR (bit.ly/38oaSBF), tech (bit.ly/2N52pfv, bit.ly/2N3BqRo)

3/ One thing expected from the upcoming Quad leaders summit is a COVID19 vaccine initiative.

Idea is to put a positive foot forward, signal Quad is not just abt China, but also a value add for the Indo-Pacific

Relevant pieces
- on.ft.com/3qzjNGS
- reut.rs/3cycTNh

4/ Since Asia loves its three no's, five maybes, seven assurances or thereabouts, here are 6 "nots" w/r/t the Quad

5/ Better words for the Quad are "grouping" or "coalition."

Think abt it in the context of shift in Asia from a hub & spoke sys of alliances & partnerships to a spider web of relationships btwn various nodes. Like a web, it is not a finished product but continuing to be spun.

6/ Media folks: if you're looking to speak to folks about the Quad, here's a prelim list: @LisaCurtisDC @AyresAlyssa @avasudeva_87 @Cold_Peace_ @d_jaishankar @ZackCooper @AbeDenmark @raji143 @darshanabaruah @OfficerNagao @tomtaniguchi @Rory_Medcalf @SecurityScholar @DaniellesCave

7/ Re a potential Quad vaccine initiative. There is some precedent of a coalition of like-mindeds assisting partner countries

Aid-India Consortium in 1950s-60s that brought together at various points US, UK, W Germany, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, IMF reps

https://twitter.com/tanvi_madan/status/1369676433946275841?s=20

8 🎧🎙 If you prefer to listen to podcasts, here's @lawfarepodcast episode on the Quad w/ Macquarie University's Lavina Lee & me podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

9/ A few have asked about China's reaction to the Quad. It has yo-yo'd (e.g. see Wang Yi's stmts). Like with the grouping's critics more broadly, can categorize 2 reax as "not doing much" or "doing too much"

10/ Re tweet (4) above, @sid_ravishankar has pointed out that @SecBlinken used "Quadrilateral Security Dialogue" in his testimony on the Hill. That's reverting to the 2007 name for it but 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵 do not use QSD.

Maybe 🇺🇸 can persuade them to embrace it. If it does, will update.

11/ TBHaren't even too many references from Quad 1.0-era official docs/stmts to "Quadrilateral Security Dialogue."

Recently 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵 hv used other labels. Sthg to keep an eye/ear out for tmrw if there's a jt stmt

https://twitter.com/tanvi_madan/status/1370080628461408258?s=20

12/ Maybe an enterprising soul can track down the origin of "Quadrilateral Strategic Dialogue" in the US & why it was used so infrequently.

Why didn't 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵 use QSD? Probably to allay concerns in the region (& at home) that the grp was an Asian NATO or just security-focused