September 25, 2021

The leaders of the US, Japan, India and Australia — known as the Quad — finished their face-to-face meeting in Washington on Friday in an attempt to cement ties while containing China, but experts said that an interlude during the meeting involving US President Joe Biden complaining about his translation device malfunction is an omen of the emerging anti-China clique's future — that it cannot function at all due to US' declining capability and changes of the global situation. 

The Friday meeting focused on topics including vaccines, climate, cooperation on technology and space without mentioning the words "China" or "Beijing" in opening remarks heard by reporters, but China was "the subtext of most of the group's agenda," the Washington Post reported. 

Biden said the countries were "coming together to take on key challenges of our age, from COVID to climate to emerging technologies" and he added in his opening remarks at the meeting that "we know how to get things done, and we are up to the challenge." 

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