Informist, Wednesday, Jul. 2, 2025

NEW DELHI – The Quad, a grouping between the US, India, Australia and Japan, Tuesday launched the 'Quad Critical Minerals Initiative' to strengthen economic security and diversify critical mineral supply chains. "We are launching today (Tuesday) the Quad Critical Minerals Initiative, an expansion of our partnership to strengthen economic security and collective resilience by collaborating to secure and diversify critical minerals supply chains," foreign ministers of the Quad, who met in Washington D.C., said in a joint statement. The initiative aims to decouple the supply chain of critical minerals from China.

Noting the significance of diversified and reliable global supply chains, the Quad said that reliance on any one country for processing and refining critical minerals exposes industries to "economic coercion, price manipulation, and supply chain disruptions".

The Quad also sought to strengthen maritime and transnational security, economic prosperity and security. "We continue to deepen our cooperation on maritime law enforcement through regional training initiatives, maritime legal dialogues, and coast guard cooperation. We plan to launch the Quad Ports of the Future Partnership in Mumbai this year. We will continue to counter foreign efforts to push false narratives and interfere with Quad interests in the Indo-Pacific," the foreign ministers said in the joint statement.

The Quad condemned the terrorist attack at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on Arp. 22, which claimed 26 lives. "We call for the perpetrators, organisers, and financiers of this reprehensible act to be brought to justice without any delay and urge all UN member states to cooperate actively with all relevant authorities in this regard," the statement read. The four-country group also slammed China for its "dangerous and unilateral actions" to alter the status quo in the East China Sea and South China Sea by "force or coercion."

"We remain concerned about the situation in the East China Sea and South China Sea. We express our serious concerns regarding dangerous and provocative actions, including interference with offshore resource development, the repeated obstruction of the freedom of navigation and overflight, and the dangerous manoeuvres by military aircraft and coast guard and maritime militia vessels," the Quad said. End

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Nishant Maher

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