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When US President Joe Biden warmly greeted newly elected Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Quad summit in Tokyo this year, the influential gathering was a legacy of the late former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. It was only the second face-to-face meeting of the US-Japan-Australia-India Quad leaders, but this alliance of the maritime democracies had been Abe’s vision since 2006.
