September 26, 2024
Dhruva Jaishankar, Executive Director, ORF America was quoted in an article in The Economist on the Quad’s initiatives shifting focuses:
The thinking seems to be that assuming a softer mantle will earn the grouping approval from governments in the region that are sceptical of it. And Dhruva Jaishankar of the Observer Research Foundation, an Indian think-tank, notes that some of the Quad’s projects are “defence-adjacent”, such as an effort to provide other governments with satellite imagery that can track ships in their waters, and a new programme to manufacture semiconductors for military purposes in India.