The QUAD in session.

Today's day 2 meeting of the QUAD, being flagged off by Modi, Biden, Albanese and Fumio Kishida isn't a run of the mill meet as seen earlier. 

A key objective is to sort out China once and for all..... 

The weapon? 

It's the Quad led IPEF global alliance targeted specifically with China in mind backed by a staggering 20 trillion dollar joint budget with USA and Japan as the leading contributors.

And China knows it all too well.....

12 technically savvy, rich and powerful nations will form a counter to global Chinese domination as an engine for global economic growth.

They are bound by common values of democracy, excellence in supply chain logistics, intelligence sharing, space technology and who knows going forward - maybe even open military cooperation to blunt the ongoing Chinese threat.

China is seriously worried at the scale of the budgets being committed towards this IPEF (Indo Pacific Economic Framework) : 20 trillion dollars with more to follow.

The four-member QUAD club involving India, USA, Japan and Australia will steer the IPEF as permanent members with voting rights and India will be jointly pitched by all member countries as the supply chain alternative to China in the coming decade to show China its place.

China is seriously rattled and shooting off threat after threat from its foreign office as it realises the enormity of the problem that's facing it.

This should finish off China's economy forever without a bullet being fired by giving member countries preferred trade and manufacturing access while leveraging 85% of the world's free markets to buy and sell non Chinese products.....

Another big headache for China is the joint use and sharing of space surveillance involving member countries (particularly NASA and ISRO) to spot and put a hard stop to illegal Chinese fishing boats that harass and intrude into the South China sea's neighbouring countries....

India is smack bang in the centre of the world's anti-China drive and the international chess board is heating up big time as China realises the extent to which India is being feted and welcomed by the world as a natural successor to China while the Chinese are getting isolated and cornered worldwide even as they are sorted out with no rich, powerful allies in their corner except a beleagured Russia, poverty stricken North Korea and debt ridden Pakistan.....

China is in big trouble for its overt expansionism and muscular military display as the world takes note and forms a formidable economic alliance that is bound to hurt China seriously in the long run, depriving it of future business and markets and diverting cutting edge technology, business and trade elsewhere....

Where else but India?

My take

China has been asking for this since the last two decades! It has been riding roughshod with weak countries, forcing them into a debt trap! 

Tailpiece.

Got up at 6, opened up the house and switched on the music, the chores and was ready by a half past 10. Sanil, Mini and Mithun left for Ayur by around a half past 10. All items connected with today's puja were also loaded in their car.

A quiet day.

The 'Vaasthu puja' and the 'Bhagavathi seva' were conducted in the evening, which rolled on to the night.