Quad countries agree to expand Indo-Pacific cyber, maritime initiatives

TOKYO -- Foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. stressed unity and vowed to expand collaboration on cyber and maritime security in the Indo-Pacific at a meeting in Tokyo on Monday, which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed as "a moment of unprecedented strategic alignment."

At a joint news conference, Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Australia's Penny Wong and India's Subrahmanyam Jaishankar announced initiatives to bolster the resilience of undersea cable networks, extend "maritime domain awareness" and streamline their disaster response framework in the region.