QUAD Grouping
The Quad is diplomatic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States- four countries with a shared vision “for a region that is governed by accepted rules and norms.”
The origins of Quad 1.0, as it came to be known, lie in the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, when the four countries formed the “Tsunami Core Group” to coordinate the emergency response and humanitarian assistance.
In the subsequent years, there were efforts to institutionalize the Quad, spearheaded by Abe Shinzo during his first term as prime minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007. Abe’s rationale for the Quad was to defend the international rules-based order, implying that China had become a threat to that order.
By 2017, with the rise of China and Beijing’s assertive military behaviour in the East and South China Seas, as well as along the border with India, a returned Abe resurrected the idea of the Quad.
2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting
India and Japan conducted its second 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministerial Meeting.
The Ministers confirmed that they will cooperate toward the common goal of realizing a “Free and Open IndoPacific (FOIP).”
India’s 2+2 Mechanism
Japan is the second country with which India has 2+2 ministerial dialogue (USA being the other one)
India and Australia also have the 2+2 at the official level.
With this, India has 2+2 mechanism with all the Quad countries at some level