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Recently, there was news that the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier battle group is rushing to the Western Pacific day and night. Foreign media said that it is intended to fill the so-called "power vacuum" in the region. To put it bluntly, it is to cheer up and support its allies in the Asia-Pacific region. The reason is simple. The United States needs an aircraft carrier battle group to cheer up and support its allies at this time. According to The Paper, the so-called "Quad" led by the United States recently held a foreign ministers' meeting. In a joint statement issued after the meeting, they said that they were "seriously concerned about the situation in the East China Sea and the South China Sea."

The US aircraft carrier rushed to the Western Pacific day and night to support the US allies

In response to the joint statement issued by the foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, India and Australia, China was also blunt: "We urge countries outside the region to stop adding fuel to the fire in the region." In other words, whether it is the South China Sea issue or the East China Sea issue, it is a problem between China and relevant countries, and there is no need for some external countries to meddle in it! Indeed, the South China Sea issue is an issue between China and relevant countries such as the Philippines, and has nothing to do with the United States, Japan, India and Australia. Even the East China Sea issue is only a problem between China and Japan, and there is no need for the United States, India, Australia and other unrelated countries to "pay serious attention."

It is worth mentioning that the wording of the Quad foreign ministers' meeting on the South China Sea and East China Sea issues was more severe than before, but it rarely mentioned the situation in the Taiwan Strait. From this point, it can be seen that there seems to be a big difference in the attitude of the Quad foreign ministers on the issue of relations with China. In other words, the United States and Japan are eager to put more content related to China in the joint statement, but India and Australia, out of consideration for maintaining cooperation with China, do not intend to say too much.

The Quad is a joke, and no country in the region wants to join it

In fact, the relevant decision of India and Australia is relatively wise, because by hyping up the Taiwan Strait issue, the vested interests may be taken away by the United States and Japan, but the consequences arising from this need to be borne by India and Australia together. Moreover, the hyping up of the South China Sea and East China Sea issues by the Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Quad has little to do with India and Australia in terms of geopolitical relations. Their willingness to sign this document "expressing serious concern" about the South China Sea and East China Sea issues has obviously given enough face to the United States and Japan.

The United States led the establishment of this alliance in the hope of using it as a framework to attract more countries to participate and lay the foundation for its creation of an "Asia-Pacific version of NATO." However, the reality did not match expectations. The Quad itself is more like a non-binding alliance. Since its establishment, it has issued countless agreement documents, but these documents and agreements are basically no different from waste paper. What is even more embarrassing for the United States is that the alliance has been established for several years, and almost every year at the meeting, it clamors for "expansion," but other regional countries are unwilling to participate, and now they are still the same old faces as when it was first established.

The United States wants to expand the Quad Alliance into an Asia-Pacific version of NATO, but the reality is very bleak

The United States dreams of creating an "Asia-Pacific version of NATO" to strengthen its military encirclement of China and threaten Russia's Far East. However, the United States' ideals are full, but the reality is very skinny. The reason is not difficult to explain. The United States' comprehensive national strength is declining, and it is difficult to reproduce the glory of its history in the Asia-Pacific region. Therefore, not only has the Quad Alliance's "expansion" plan become an international joke, but even the "Ocus" Alliance, which the United States has high hopes for, has become silent after a period of tossing and turning, although countries such as Japan and Canada are clamoring to join.

Obviously, if the United States still has the ability to build a military bloc in the Asia-Pacific region, there is no need to risk weakening Europe's anti-Russian military strength and attempt to pull part of NATO's military resources to the Asia-Pacific region to deal with China. It can be seen that the foreign ministers' meeting held by the Quad this time has extended its interventionist black hands to the South China Sea and the East China Sea. This is more like a political show, because in the end, the only ones who have the motivation and determination to intervene in the above-mentioned sensitive waters may be the United States and Japan. Because Australia has suffered losses in the South China Sea, in recent years, except for participating in the joint military exercises between the United States and Japan in the South China Sea, it seems that it has not done anything out of line.

The increase in China's military strength has made some countries afraid to cause trouble around China.

Not to mention India, which has always refused to act as a strategic vassal of the United States. Although its warships have appeared in the waters of the South China Sea, they have played a supporting role at most, that is, letting the warships operate in the international waters of the South China Sea for a while and then going home to eat. Of course, this does not mean that these countries do not want to follow the United States and Japan in making trouble, but they realize that the Chinese navy is too powerful and are worried that they will not get any fish, but will get into trouble, which is not worth the loss.

Therefore, the US-led Quad Alliance, holding various annual meetings, is actually more like a routine, or to put it bluntly, a waste of national resources. Even if the US aircraft carriers rush to the Western Pacific to cheer and support, it will not change this result. The reason is simple. When most countries in the Asia-Pacific region are unwilling to take sides, there are no new members joining the alliance, and no non-alliance countries are participating in the struggle. What is the point of continuing this alliance that is almost dead in name only?