Quad leaders to hold summit in Manila on Wednesday

Leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia and India will hold a Quad summit for the first time in two years.

The four Quad leaders are set to meet in Manila on Wednesday — the final day of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit — according to Yonhap and Reuters.

It will be the first Quad summit since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, and the first since the leaders gathered in Wilmington, Delaware, in September 2024 — a gap of more than two years.

The agenda is expected to cover the security environment in the Indo-Pacific region, responses to China's expanding military influence, and supply chain stabilization.

Earlier, the foreign ministers of the four Quad nations met on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta on Oct. 31, agreeing to coordinate a joint response to China's control over supply chains in critical minerals.

A summit had originally been expected to take place in India last year, but the meeting fell through as relations between Washington and New Delhi soured over the Trump administration's high-tariff policies, according to reports.