Joe Biden will fly to Japan for the Quad Summit and will hold bilateral conversations with Prime Minister Modi

According to his national security advisor, US President Joe Biden will fly to Japan for the second in-person Quad summit, where he will hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Quad, a Trump administration project that Biden has elevated to the leadership level, was formed with Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. There have been three summits thus far, two of which were virtual.

"We believe that this summit will demonstrate both in substance and vision that democracies can deliver, and that these four nations working together will defend and uphold the principles of a free and open Indo-Pacific," US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said during the daily White House press briefing.

While in Tokyo, Biden will also announce the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), a new and ambitious economic effort for the region that will be a 21st-century economic framework tailored to address new economic issues, he added.

"From creating the rules of the digital economy to guaranteeing secure and robust supply chains to managing the energy transition to investing in clean, modern, high-standard infrastructure," he said, the framework will include labour. For the launch of IPEF, Biden will be joined in person by Prime Minister Abe of Japan and virtually by leaders from a number of Indo-Pacific allies from Australia to Southeast Asia to Northeast Asia.

"On security and economics, technology and energy, and infrastructure investment, we believe this trip will put President Biden's Indo-Pacific strategy on full display, demonstrating in vivid detail that the US can simultaneously lead the free world in responding to Russia's war in Ukraine, while charting a course for effective, principled American leadership and engagement in a region that will define much of the future of the twenty-first century."

"We believe that message will be heard all around the world." We believe Beijing will hear it. "However, it is not a negative message, and it is not directed at any particular country," he explained.

“It’s targeted at an audience the world over about what American leadership working flanked by allies and like-minded partners can deliver for people everywhere,” he added.

"And we believe we have a good argument to make that we have what it takes to deliver against the security and economic problems of our day," Sullivan concluded.