Shinzo Abe's powerful legacy - The QUAD #shinzoabe #quad #usa #india #japan #australia #military

Abe Shinzo’s assassination is a great loss to a region he helped to re-imagine as the “Indo-Pacific”. Leaders have reacted with shock at his killing. US President Joe Biden lauded Abe’s effort to “advance a common vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific” and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed a national day of mourning for a man “ahead of his times”. Australia’s Anthony Albanese described Abe as “a giant of the world stage” and singled out the Quad grouping, drawing together the United States, India, Australia and Japan, as “a legacy of Mr Abe’s diplomatic activism”. Biden, Modi and Albanese joined to issue a statement describing Abe as a “transformative leader” and pledged to honour his memory by “redoubling our work towards a peaceful and prosperous region”.

Abe was the first initiator of the Quad regional grouping in the 2000s and remained its key champion throughout its re-birth in recent years. In a canonical speech “Confluence of the Two Seas” delivered in 2007 to the Indian parliament during his first brief stint as prime minister, Abe highlighted the importance of joining the Pacific and Indian oceans to advocate for a “broader Asia”. It was this speech that saw a clear structure of how the Indo-Pacific might be conceived – “a dynamic coupling as seas of freedom and of prosperity”, as he described, “a ‘broader Asia’ that broke away geographical boundaries is now beginning to take on a distinct form”.

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