Blinken arrives in Australia for Quad meeting

Evil man coming to drum up support for war.

Actually it is a US man coming to drum up support for peace and stability in the region. Anyone objecting to that must want war.

It seems there is no difference to some who see the US as bad if they call for war and bad if they call for peace. They cant win no matter what stance they take.

In theory I like the idea of the Quad but Narendra Modi is much too close to the authoritarian ways of Vladimir Putin or Tayyip Erdogan and the new detention camps being built in India are to me no different than those built in Xinjiang for the Uyghurs. I understand the strategic value of having India as an ally to counter China but the government in India today really isn't all that much better than that of Xi Jinping. It is very hard to feel comfortable inviting them in as allies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-modi-india-detention-camps/

"In theory I like the idea of the Quad but Narendra Modi is much too close to the authoritarian ways of Vladimir Putin or Tayyip Erdogan and the new detention camps being built in India are to me no different than those built in Xinjiang for the Uyghurs."

The detention camps in Assam are nothing new, they have existed for almost 15 years and the governments before Modi came to power have also played a role in their expansion. India is not China where those at the receiving end of state overreach have no judicial recourse.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/the-truth-about-assam-s-detention-centres-1644836-2020-02-10

Modi might have authoritarian tendencies but he is still answerable to the general public every few months as per India's election cycle. If Modi were really as much of an authoritarian as you claim he is he would have no trouble in passing laws or getting things done. Modi is a bigoted idiot but he is no Putin or Xi.

Further India has never really harmed American interests unlike the names of the strongmen that you took. I believe there is something else that elicits your reaction regarding India every time an article on Quad comes up.

I have seen quite a few Chinese born or raised in the West who have enjoyed all the freedom that the West has to offer but who still root for their motherland which their ancestors left a long time back. If they like China so much then there is nothing stopping them from leaving their lives in democratic countries and going back to their communist paradise. They might even get paid by the CCP for their vociferous support of China.

Their love for China is motivated more out of racial chauvinism than out of any ideological principle. For this reason its quite funny to see them complain about the racism that Asians face in the US. That is all there is to their vehement anti-US posts every time an article on Quad or US-led efforts to ensure freedom of navigation and rule of law comes up.

And there is a second category of folks who love China quite a bit. These are the non-ethnic Chinese who have married Chinese girls and have somehow developed sympathies for China due to that connection.

The detention camps in Assam are nothing new, they have existed for almost 15 years and the governments before Modi came to power have also played a role in their expansion. India is not China where those at the receiving end of state overreach have no judicial recourse.

That is a bit of a misrepresentation of the truth. The detention centers in Assam were run by the state government and opposed by the Congress Party. The six detention centers together held about 1000 prisoners. It was only after the Modi government and the BJP passed the new citizenship laws that strip Indian citizenship from some two million Indian Muslims that the construction of truly massive detention centers under national government funding began. In fact all states were ordered to construct detention centers, not just in Assam any more with the intention of holding up to two million Indian Muslims in these detention centers. Indian Muslims and increasingly Indian Christians are being stripped of their rights by Hindu fundamentalism that is pushed by the Modi government and his BJP allies.

I neglected to add this link that outlines the history of India's detention centers.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nrc-story-how-assam-got-detention-centres-for-foreigners-1631835-2019-12-27

Reading Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian‘s criticism of the meeting, I had to think of "democracy" on two levels. Democracy on a popular, institutional level and democracy on an international level.  Of course, the two must be closely related.

The former may be called "institutional democracy" and the latter "international democracy". Zhao was apparently referring to democracy in the latter sense. In that sense, the U.S. is not a democratic country, as Zhao asserts, certainly no different from other countries seeking hegemony on the international scene.