The US built the Quad, but now it’s letting it fail

The Quad — the U.S., Japan, India and Australia — was conceived arsenic a strategical conjugation to uphold a “free and unfastened Indo-Pacific,” a conception articulated by the precocious Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe successful 2016 and aboriginal elevated to a centerpiece of U.S. strategy. At involvement was thing little than preserving a rules-based order…