The world keenly followed the coming together of global leaders in Philippines where the Indian Prime Minister attended the ASEAN and East Asia summits. On the sidelines of these summits, he met with the leaders of the US, Japan and Australia – Donald Trump, Shinzo Abe and Malcolm Turnbull.

This put focus on the revival of the famous grouping of democracies, called the ‘Quad’ – the coming together of these three countries along with India to form an alliance in the region.