India, Sept. 19 -- The formalisation of the Quad and Quad Plus will likely gain momentum amidst rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific.

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, elected with an overwhelming majority in Parliament after a contest within the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), occupied the position of Chief Cabinet Secretary for nearly eight years, before becoming PM. It is a job perhaps unique to Japan. In most countries like India, the similarly sounding Cabinet Secretary is a senior bureaucrat. However, the positions are not the same-the job that Mr Suga occupied till last week is closer to what can be described as the Chief Operating Officer of the Government of Japan, second only to the PM in hierarchy, and is a Cabi...