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  China has said that the Quad coalition is a "tool" to prevent it from moving forward and that it is a deliberate move to intensify the confrontation, which will not succeed. This statement of China came at a time when a meeting regarding Quad was held in China yesterday. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar also participated in the Foreign Ministers' meeting of the Quad countries in Melbourne, Australia. Along with this, he also held separate meetings with the Defense Minister of Australia and the Foreign Ministers of America and Japan. Jaishankar went to Australia for the first time as foreign minister. Actually, the quad includes India, Australia, America and Japan. China has territorial disputes with several countries in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region and has been opposing the Quad alliance since its formation. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a press conference here, "China believes that the so-called Quad group for...

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that Russia could attack Ukraine during the ongoing Winter Olympics in Beijing and that American citizens should leave the Eastern European country immediately. Blinken did not elaborate on the reasons behind the latest security alert from the State Department. "Simply put, we are seeing worrying signs of escalating tensions from the Russian side, including the arrival of new forces on the Ukrainian border," Blinken said in Melbourne, Australia. The US Secretary of State said, "We are at a point where the attack can start at any time, and obviously this includes the time of the Olympics." The Olympic Games are to end on February 20. Russia has gathered more than a million troops near Ukraine and says it has no intention of attacking, but wants Western Ukraine and former Soviet countries out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Keep it   'The alliance between Russia and China is worrying...