The Quad is becoming an increasingly important pillar of Indo-Pacific security as the US, Japan, Australia and India deepen cooperation on maritime security, critical minerals and regional resilience. While Beijing dismisses …
The Quad is becoming an increasingly important pillar of Indo-Pacific security as the US, Japan, Australia and India deepen cooperation on maritime security, critical minerals and regional resilience. While Beijing dismisses the grouping as an “Indo-Pacific NATO” designed to contain China, the four members continue expanding practical initiatives, including maritime domain awareness and supply chain security. At the same time, China is responding with stronger diplomacy, gray-zone tactics and closer ties with countries such as Russia as it seeks to counter the Quad’s growing influence. Is the Quad evolving into a durable strategic partnership—or do differences among its members still give Beijing room to maneuver? In this episode, we examine how China views the Quad, how the grouping is adapting to the China challenge and what it means for Taiwan and the future of the Indo-Pacific. *Recorded on July 2, 2026 at 2pm Taiwan Standard Time Host: Wen-Ti Sung Producer: Suvam Pal Our guests: Stephen Nagy International Christian University Politics and International Studies Professor Ronan Fu Academia Sinica Institute of Political Science Assistant Research Fellow Chapters: 00:00:00 – Quad Consolidates Role in Indo-Pacific 00:01:57 – How Does Beijing ViewQuad? 00:13:10 – China Attempts To Counterbalance Quad 00:21:18 – Taiwan Looks to Quad #Quad #IndoPacific #Taiwan #QuadAlliance #Beijing #China #ChinaThreat #IndoPacificRegion #Geopolitics #TaiwanStrait #USChina #GlobalSecurity #InternationalRelations #AsiaPacific #MilitaryAlliance #IndoPacificStrategy #StrategicPartnership #SouthChinaSea #RegionalSecurity #GlobalPolitics #DefendTaiwan #ChinaForeignPolicy #GeopoliticalRisk #StrategicAlliances #IndoPacificGeopolitics #QuadSummit #BeijingPerspective #Counterbalance #TaiwanSecurity #EastAsia #DefensePolicy #GlobalDefense #SecurityAlliance #MaritimeSecurity #BalanceOfPower #ForeignRelations #Asiageopolitics #IndoPacificSecurity #StrategicStability #RegionalStability #GlobalStrategy #DefenseAlliance #Alliances #SecurityStrategy #IndoPacificPolicy #SuperpowerRivalry #EastAsiaSecurity #Geostrategic #TaiwanPlus #TaiwanTalks
Several government officials, including a ranking Philippines Coast Guard officer and a media organization, have become the latest targets of China’s aggressive assertions against those critical of their actions in the …
Several government officials, including a ranking Philippines Coast Guard officer and a media organization, have become the latest targets of China’s aggressive assertions against those critical of their actions in the South China Sea. In this episode of #CorrespondentsOnTaiwanPlus, host Andrew Ryan speaks to Summer Chen, founder of Taiwan-based initiative FactLink, and Regine Cabato, a contributor at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), to discuss China’s information war in the region and how journalists can fight back. 00:00 – Intro 01:30 – Chinese Embassy targets media in Manila row 04:20 – Cabato: ‘Scary’ to be on China embassy radar 05:42 – Taiwan fact-checkers on alert for disinformation 06:32 – Pro-Duterte influencers get Beijing training 08:17 – Chen cautions against labeling influencers 10:05 – Is influencer diplomacy being weaponized? Watch this episode of Correspondents, where we go beyond the headlines with experts and journalists in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region. Subscribe to the Correspondents’ playlist to get the latest episodes: • Correspondents #TaiwanPlus #TaiwanPlusNews #TaiwanNews #CorrespondentsOnTaiwanPlus #journalists #PCIJ #FactLink #propaganda #InfluenceOperations #influencers #vloggers #Pro-Duterte #Beijing #InfluencerDiplomacy #ChineseEmbassy #Philippines #Japan #Taiwan #China –
