Biden welcomed Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a four-way meeting near his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, to stress the importance of maintaining the Quad, which he sees as a signature foreign policy achievement, before he leaves office in January.

At a recent Quad summit, leaders discussed rising tensions with China, emphasizing increased maritime cooperation and the need for collective action in the Indo-Pacific region

President Joe Biden showed off a slice of his Delaware hometown to the leaders of Australia, Japan and India as he hosted what is likely the last gathering of the Indo-Pacific partnership that has grown in prominence under his White House tenure.

When Biden entered the White House he looked to elevate the so-called Quad , which until then had only met at the foreign minister level, to a leader-level partnership as he tried