Attached to Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, Takuya Matsuda is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia.
It’s interesting to consider if the Quad is still a wise investment for Washington as the Trump administration announces its will to keep a firm posture against China and pledges to cooperate with friends and partners in the Indo-Pacific.
The answer is indeed yes, but only if a common vision on security cooperation can be attained.