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Title EVOLVING QUADRILATERAL ALLIANCE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA

Author(s) Zunaz Arif

Abstract Abstract The Indo-Pacific region has turned into a pitch of an essential battle between the US and China. The US sees China as a political, financial, and security risk in the Indo-Pacific, a region that has for quite some time been fundamentally important for the US to accomplish its national interest, because of China's ascent as a territorial power, which is presently developing into a global power. The current dynamics of the Indo-Pacific reflect how the United States through QUAD is attempting to balance the emerging Chinese threat in the region since traditional material capabilities are unable to suppress Chinese developments. Under the Free and Open Indo-Pacific System, the US will keep on seeking after reciprocal and multilateral commitment to get adequate partners in the Indo-Pacific region so it might keep on working as per the guidelines based request. In this perspective this research poses the questions: Why is Quad Deepening its ground roots in AsiaPacific and transforming into a formal alliance system? How does the Quadrilateral Alliance challenge the peaceful rise of China in the Asia-pacific region? and lastly How can China respond to the probable challenges posed by the Quadrilateral Alliance system in order to rise peacefully and realize its dreams? Moreover, an effort has been made to analyze the evolving Quadrilateral Alliance in the Asia-pacific region and studying its implications for China in the region and assess China’s response strategies to mitigate challenges posed the Quad alliance. The revisionist behavior and peaceful rise of China are posing daunting concerns to the members of Quad. The fear of being engulfed by China makes the member of Quad make a robust and coherent strategy to counter the strategic gain of China. In order to counter the hedge gained by China all the members of Quad have beefed up their cooperation with one another. The common interests of all the Quad member states is maintaining a stable balance of power in the region, freedom of the seas, an open rules-based economic order, to counter debt-trap diplomacy and to limit the use of coercion by a state to assert territorial claims. Oppositely, China is reinforcing its power and danger projection capacities through naval force modernisation, military control of the South China Sea, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), monetary arrangements, and strategic contacts with encompassing states. Inaction with respect to the Indo-Pacific system to address China's rising forcefulness is found in these sorts of exercises. This research with the US Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy (FOIP) formulated concept of evolving Quad alliance in the Asia-Pacific region and studding its implications for China. The ongoing counterbalancing strategy has put the future regional order of the Indo-Pacific in a jeopardy

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department International Relations

Language English

Publication Date 2023-03-09

Subject International Relations

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