The Biden administration’s coalition-building with U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific has reached a fever pitch. It began early in the administration with the elevation of the U.S.-Japan-Australia-India quadrilateral dialogue to the level of regular leaders’ summits. Then, in September 2021, came the Australia-United Kingdom-United States pact to produce nuclear-powered submarines for Australia and collaborate on research into advanced capabilities such as hypersonic weapons and quantum computing.
In parallel, NATO released a new Strategic Concept in June 2022 that named China as a high strategic priority. To that end, the bloc began inviting the leaders of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea to its annual summits. And last August, U.S. President Joe Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at Camp
