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🔶India to host Quad summit in 2024 🔷 India will host the Quad summit in 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in 2023, with the Quad summit to be held on the margins of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. 🔶The Quad is a multilateral grouping of four countries- India, Australia, the United States and Japan, which aims to ensure and support a "free, open and prosperous" Indo-Pacific region. 🔶 The grouping was formed in 2017 and poses a tough challenge to China's expansionist policies. 🔶 This year's Quad summit was originally scheduled in Australia but was held in Japan after US President Joe Biden had to postpone his trip to Australia due to ongoing debt ceiling talks in Washington. 🔶 Japan is hosting the G7 summit and all the leaders of the group are currently visiting the country. 🔶 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the first to pitch for the formation of the Quad in 2007.