Quad leaders plan Manila summit on Tuesday, sources say
The four-country grouping has not held a leaders' meeting in more than two years, with energy security and supply chains on the agenda.
Quad leaders including US President Donald Trump plan to meet in Manila on Tuesday, according to Reuters and The Hindu, which both cited sources they did not name. The summit would bring the United States, Japan, India and Australia together for the first leaders' meeting of the grouping in more than two years.
No date has been announced by the four governments. Nikkei Asia reported that the countries had yet to confirm when the summit would take place, and that hopes for a meeting had been raised by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks about holding one on the sidelines of ASEAN events in Manila next week. The Hindu put the date at November 17.
Nikkei Asia reported the leaders would take up energy security and resilient supply chains, describing them as pressing global issues, and that the grouping had gone two years without a leaders' meeting amid strains in diplomatic and trade ties. It did not specify what those strains were beyond that description.
The four foreign ministers last appeared together in New Delhi on May 26, when Rubio held a joint press conference with Australia's Penny Wong, India's S. Jaishankar and Japan's Toshimitsu Motegi after a Quad ministerial meeting, according to Nikkei Asia.
Manila, the Philippine capital, is host to the ASEAN meetings next week. ASEAN is the Southeast Asian bloc whose annual gatherings draw heads of government from the region and their dialogue partners.
Reuters reported that Trump and the other Quad leaders would meet on Tuesday. The Hindu reported that a Quad summit was likely to be held in Manila on November 17. Neither account named the sources for the date or said which leaders had confirmed they would attend.
The reports carried no statement from the White House, India's Ministry of External Affairs, Japan's foreign ministry or Australia's foreign ministry confirming the meeting. Nikkei Asia, reporting before the date was widely circulated, said only that a summit was hoped for after a gap of more than two years.
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