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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will join Quad counterparts in Atlanta for talks expected to prepare the ground for a leaders’ summit in Manila. The meeting comes amid strains in India-US ties and renewed focus on maritime and economic security.

Quad can emerge as a formidable bloc of democracies, some sort of an ‘Asian Nato’ arrangement against China

The talks come weeks ahead of the US presidential election and amid tensions between the US and China over the virus, trade, technology, Hong Kong, Taiwan and human rights.

This grouping is seen as a response to China's growing military assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region.