“Whether Chinese officials settle on a strategy that succeeds in undermining the Quad’s progress will be one of the key factors in determining the course of U.S.-Chinese competition—and the fate of China’s global ambitions more generally— in what has already become a ‘decade of living dangerously,’” the Asia Society’s Kevin Rudd writes for Foreign Affairs.

“If there is still hand-wringing in Asian capitals in response to AUKUS and the Quad, it involves three major concerns. First, that countries will need to choose between the United States and China; second, that the Quad will undermine the current regional architecture centered around the Association of Southeast Asian Nations; and third, that AUKUS will trigger a new arms race in the region,” the National University of Singapore’s C. Raja Mohan writes for Foreign Policy.

CFR’s Sheila A. Smith lays out what to know about the Quad.