Biden to rally regional support for China containment strategy at Quad summit

Biden will meet leaders of Australia, India and Japan as he builds a web of alliances to support democracy and deter authoritarianism

Joe Biden will host the first in-person summit of the Quad countries - the US, India, Japan and Australia - at the White House on Friday as he ratchets up the reorientation of US foreign policy towards the Pacific and the containment of China.

The summit, which will seek to deepen ties within the ad hoc grouping, will take place just nine days after the surprise announcement of the Aukus security agreement between Australia, the UK and US, built around the sharing of nuclear-propulsion technology with Australia for its new submarine fleet.