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During a closed session of the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for handling the Covid-19 outbreak in a democratic manner, drawing a parallel between “India’s success and China’s failure.” According to a senior official, Biden compared India’s success to China’s failure to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that both countries are comparable in size.
According to the official, Biden added that PM Modi’s success has demonstrated to the world that democracies can deliver, and has debunked the “myth that autocracies like China and Russia can handle the fast changing world better because their governance can take and implement decisions without going through lengthy democratic processes.”
According to the official, President Biden’s remarks appeared to be unscripted because he made a special intervention to say this before his prepared remarks.
PM Modi met US President Biden today, shortly after the Quad Leaders’ Summit concluded. The meeting is an extension of their regular dialogue, which began on April 11 in virtual mode.
The leaders of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States met in Tokyo today for the fourth time, and the second time in person.
This meeting follows the Quad Leaders’ fourth interaction since their first conference call in March 2021, in-person Summit in Washington D.C. in September 2021, and virtual meeting in March 2022.
The Quad Summit allowed the Leaders to discuss developments in the Indo-Pacific region as well as contemporary global issues of mutual interest. The Quad Summit saw the launch of a new initiative for ongoing collaboration in the maritime, space, climate change, health, and cyber security domains.
