The bill emphasizes strengthening cooperation between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan to promote a free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific. It calls for a strategy to bolster engagement with the Quad, focusing on shared interests like security, intelligence, economic partnerships, and multilateral coordination. Additionally, the bill seeks to establish a Quad Inter-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values, with a United States Group of Congress members. The United States Group would engage with officials and submit an annual report outlining their activities and recommendations for enhancing the Quad.
Strengthening the Quad Act
This bill directs the Department of State to seek to establish a working group with Japan, Australia, and India to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values. (The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, also known as the Quad, is a coalition comprised of the United States and these three countries.)
The bill also requires the State Department to report to Congress a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad. The strategy shall summarize current and past Quad initiatives, including those to promote broad-based and inclusive economic growth, technology cooperation, energy innovation, and resilient supply chains. The strategy shall also recommend (1) how Congress can help address certain barriers to implementing and expanding Quad cooperation, (2) new authorities needed to strengthen U.S. leadership in and contributions to Quad initiatives, and (3) additional resources needed to expand successful initiatives.
