Use, Japan, India e Australia - Quad - have initiated a maritime surveillance program in the Pacific to monitor Beijing. Biden spoke with the prime minister, the Japanese Kishida, the Indian Ways, and the Australian of Italian origin, Albanian, of all the world disputes, Ukraine included specifying that the latter is more than a European issue. It is a global problem. He then pointed his finger at Moscow, guilty of wanting to exterminate the Ukrainian identity and warned his colleagues that we are navigating a gloomy hour in our shared history.
Biden highlighted how Russia but also China have long started reckless economic battles at a global level which are then translating into territorial and military expansionism. The American concern and the four of the Quad are the Chinese aims on Taiwan.
India also belongs to the Quad, which until now has never condemned Russia and, moreover, is buying Moscow gas at “bargain” prices. During his speech, Modi said to leave Putin alone, confirming once again his sympathy for Moscow which, in addition to gas, also sells him weapons.
Biden then retracted on what he said last Tuesday, when he said that the US was ready to militarily defend Taipei, reiterating that the US line has not changed, thus remaining anchored to One China Policy and the Taiwan Relations Act, which oblige Washington to recognize Beijing as the only Chinese government, but at the same time to guarantee the island the tools to defend itself, thus not sending any American military to the island.
The Quad has launched the initiative Maritime From main Awareness, to control maritime traffic. It is, writes Repubblica, a satellite system that will broadcast in real time the information collected on the movements of the ships of the People's Republic. In the first place, it aims to limit illegal activities such as poaching and smuggling, but it does not escape its military caliber to keep Beijing's expansionist ambitions in the entire Pacific region at bay.
The fact sheet distributed by the White House talks about the fight against dark shipping, that is smuggling of all kinds, including that of the passage of oil into the sea used by countries such as Iran and North Korea to evade sanctions, now also adopted by Russia.