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Quad FMs, wary of China's might, push Indo-Pacific options

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar participate in a Quad ministers' panel at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi Friday, March 3, 2023. [AP Photo]

The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States offered sharp but veiled criticism of China on Friday, even as they maintained their Indo-Pacific-focused bloc is not aimed at countering Beijing.

In comments at a public event and in a written statement, the four foreign ministers used buzzwords and phrases that reflected growing unease over China's influence in the region and made clear the group aims to be an alternative to China.

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