Following the ministers meeting, the Quad announced the establishment of a Quad Cyber Ambassadors Meeting which would discuss capacity-building projects and responsible state behavior in cyberspace. First, Quad countries need to divide their responsibilities and work toward fulfilling these initiatives with other partners. China’s response to the Quad meeting is to label it an effort to curtail China’s influence. The South China Sea and China’s actions were a dominant feature of this Quad meeting and a carryover of the meetings in Vientiane. The Quad is here to stay, and it is evolving.
