00:00Let's take the two examples you mentioned, the Co-op and the India Co-op.
00:05You know, they have three common features.
00:09One, the U.S., present in both, is actually much more open to partnering countries who are not treaty allies.
00:21So the U.S. is changing. It's growing over its earlier mindset.
00:26This was not the U.S. of 20 years ago.
00:30Number two, you have an India which is willing to step beyond what were its earlier regions of comfort and activity and influence.
00:42So into the Pacific, the Indo-Pacific on that side, deeper into the, we call West Asia or Middle East, this region, the Gulf and beyond.
00:54Number three, in both cases, there are autonomous regional developments and dynamics.
01:04And the region itself has got more space to figure out how it wants to deal with itself.
01:14At that end, the Pacific, at this end, the Middle East.
01:20So these are really examples of trends and how you harness these trends to create something in the Middle East.
01:29So do I see this as a sustainable and possibly replicative way of working?
01:41Yes. I think the Quad has a longer history. It has obviously very much more to show for it.
01:51I think I2U2 has just started up. I'm very confident that, you know, we've already had one virtual summit and we've moved.
02:04The Quad took longer. And it had a false start. Then it got up to a real start.
02:10Then it moved from a kind of a, I'd say, a vice minister to a minister to a head of government here.
02:17We moved from foreign minister to the summit level.
02:20But we have actually already two projects, interesting projects.
02:27One on food, a food corridor. One on hybrid green, renewable energy.
02:34But there are a lot of interesting ideas sort of being tossed around.
02:41Ideas in business, ideas in innovation, technology.
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