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US President Donald Trump has canceled his plans to visit India for the Quad Summit amid deteriorating relations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, largely due to trade disputes and disagreements over the India-Pakistan conflict, with the relationship further strained by Trump's claims of resolving the India-Pakistan conflict and imposing tariffs on India.
The Quad summit in Sydney, which was supposed to be attended by leaders from the US, India, Australia, and Japan, has been canceled after US President Joe Biden shortened his Asia trip due to ongoing debt ceiling negotiations in Washington. The leaders will instead have discussions in Japan, where all four leaders will be over the weekend. The Quad is an informal security dialogue that is seen as a counter to China's aggressive posture in the region. Biden's visit to Papua New Guinea, which would have been the first by a sitting US President, has also been canceled.
US President Joe Biden will make a brief stopover in Papua New Guinea on May 22, en route to Australia to attend the Quad leaders summit, according to officials from the Pacific island nation. This will be the first visit by a sitting US president to the resource-rich but largely undeveloped country of 9.4 million people just north of Australia. The meeting would be a significant move in US efforts to push back against Chinese inroads in the region, and follows Biden hosting Pacific island leaders at the White House in September.