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As the next steps for U.S. foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific were debated at the outset of the Biden administration, key players conspired to elevate the format and ambitions of the Quad as a forum for cooperation among the region’s four major maritime democracies: the United States, Japan, Australia, and India. In private consultations about […]

    I visited Asia for the first time as a young naval officer in the late 1980s. There on the joint base in Yokosuka, Japan, I experienced a vivid sense of how the past and future were colliding across this vast region. U.S. and Japanese sailors were laboring together in the very harbor that