Trump's new secretary of state met with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan to discuss countering China's rising power. View on euronews

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration kicks off its formal foreign policy engagements in discussions with the Indo-Pacific “Quad.

In the first such meeting in US President Donald Trump’s second term, the foreign ministers of Quad member-states United States, India, Japan, and Australia met on the sidelines of the inauguration at

However, none of the four foreign ministers — Rubio, Australian Penny Wong, Indian S. Jaishankar or Japanese Iwaya Takeshi — spoke as they opened their meeting at the State Department. Instead they stood silent and expressionless in front of their respective flags before journalists were ushered out.

On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as the Quad: the United States plus India, Japan and Australia, representing n