{"id":4404,"date":"2026-11-14T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2026-11-14T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:04:34","slug":"trump-other-quad-leaders-to-meet-in-manila-on-tuesday-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4404","title":{"rendered":"Trump, other Quad leaders to meet in Manila on Tuesday, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Leaders of the US, Japan, Australia and India are expected to meet on Tuesday on the \u200bsidelines of a key Asian meeting in Manila, two \u200cpeople familiar with the planning said, marking the first summit of the \u201cQuad\u201d nations in two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Quad group of Indo-Pacific powers is widely considered a counterweight \u200bto China\u2019s growing influence in the region, although its members \u200bhave said the grouping is not directed against any \u2060one country.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated last month that \u200bthe <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/rubio-host-meeting-indo-pacific-quad-wrap-up-g20-gathering-2026-10-31\/\">Quad leaders<\/a> could meet on the sidelines of the summit of \u200bthe Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which begins on Sunday in the Philippine capital.<\/p>\n<p>The supply of critical minerals is expected to be on the Quad summit agenda, \u200bone of the people said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders are likely to take \u200bup the issue of free and unimpeded commercial shipping lanes to secure \u200cenergy \u2060supplies from across the world,\u201d said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to speak with the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue of attacks on commercial ships is very likely to \u200bbe taken up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bsecond person, \u2060from the Philippine government and briefed on the preparations, said the Quad leaders were expected to gather \u200bshortly after US President Donald Trump arrives in Manila \u200bon \u2060Tuesday, the last day of the ASEAN summit.<\/p>\n<p>The Manila gathering would be the first Quad leaders\u2019 meeting since Trump returned to office last year.<\/p>\n<p>Quad \u2060leaders \u200blast <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/quad-expand-maritime-security-cooperation-bidens-farewell-summit-2024-09-21\/\">met<\/a> in September 2024 in Delaware, reaffirming \u200btheir commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific and announcing initiatives to strengthen maritime \u200bsecurity cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of the US, Japan, Australia and India are expected to meet on Tuesday on the \u200bsidelines of a key Asian meeting in Manila, two \u200cpeople familiar with the planning said, marking the first summit of the \u201cQuad\u201d nations in two years. The Quad group of Indo-Pacific powers is widely considered a counterweight \u200bto China\u2019s growing influence in the region, although its members \u200bhave said the grouping is not directed against any \u2060one country. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated last month that \u200bthe Quad leaders could meet on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}