Is There a Strategic Need for This Pact?

China's embassy in washington reacted by accusing these countries of what it calls a cold war mentality. I think that the problem is the chinese are so angry about everything these days, jason says. What we are seeing in asia in response to the rise of china is this blossoming of all these different diplomatic groupings of different kinds. The quad is a little bit differents it's a diplomatic grouping, but it doesn't include this kind of fundamental, far reaching, technological or defense co operation - at least not yet.