US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Quad leaders will meet in Manila, Philippines, and that the meeting will be announced soon. The Quad, which brings together the US, Australia, India and Japan, is moving toward a summit next month.
Multiple outlets report that Rubio hosts and participates in Quad-related talks on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers meeting. South China Morning Post and Reuters-based reporting (as carried by Al-Monitor) say diplomats and foreign ministers met in Atlanta to finalise preparations, with the aim of holding the leaders’ summit during the ASEAN conference in Manila on November 15-18. Al-Monitor notes this would be the first Quad leaders meeting since 2024 and the first for President Donald Trump.
Coverage ties the Quad schedule to broader timing around US-China engagement, with South China Morning Post pointing to the proximity of a Trump-Xi meeting later next month in Shenzhen. Overall, the outlets broadly agree on the Manila timing and that preparations are underway, while differing mainly in how they connect it to surrounding diplomacy and what level of detail they provide.
