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US State Secretary Antony Blinken on Wednesday said the United States’ partnership with India has deepened and it has improved ties with India, Japan and Australia through the Quad alliance.  "We've deepened our partnership with India. We've elevated cooperation through the Quad with India, Japan, and Australia. The United States is more closely aligned with the EU and G7 than ever,” Blinken said in his address.

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The Quad alliance comprises Australia, India, Japan and the US. In a press release after the address, Blinken said, the US is "working with the United Kingdom and Australia to produce nuclear-powered submarines. We launched new comprehensive strategic partnerships with Vietnam and Indonesia, a new Defense Cooperation Agreement with the Philippines, new trilateral initiatives with the Philippines and Japan, and new embassies in the Solomon Islands and Tonga."

Talking about the Israel-Hamas war, Blinken said their priority was to ensure that October 7-like incidents do not get repeated.

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“The US will continue to focus intensely on its core priorities: helping Israel ensure that what happened on October 7 can never happen again, bringing the conflict to an end as quickly as possible while minimising the loss of life and the suffering of civilians, getting the remaining hostages back home to their families, preventing the conflict from spreading, and once and for all breaking the devastating cycle of violence and moving towards durable, lasting peace.""We continue to believe that Israel does not have to choose between removing the threat of Hamas and minimising the toll on civilians in Gaza. It must do both and it has a strategic interest to do both," he said.