In a bid to reassure allies and partners about the US commitment to Indo-Pacific, US envoy Sergio Gor has said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit India ‘very soon’ and Quad remains a priority for the Donald Trump administration.
In a bid to reassure allies and partners about US commitment to the Indo‑Pacific, US envoy Sergio Gor on Friday said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit India “very soon” and that the Quad remains a priority for the Donald Trump administration.
Gor said that Rubio held a meeting on the Quad within the first hour of assuming charge in January 2025.
“The first meeting that Secretary Rubio did right after [assuming charge] was with the Quad. And that sends a message to the world. He didn’t meet with anyone else. It was the Quad. It was literally minutes after he came into the State Department. So that’s something we’re fully engaged on,” Gor said.
Gor further said he “will be traveling to India very soon, in a matter of months,” and that his engagements will cover the Quad along with other initiatives.
Gor’s remarks come at a time when the Trump administration has sought to repair ties with India after
plunging them to their lowest point in the post‑Cold War era through a series of actions: slapping India with the highest tariffs in the world, undermining India on Operation Sindoor, aligning the United States with Pakistan, and pressuring India over its purchase of Russian oil.
US Amb Sergio Gor to @CNNnews18
Sec Rubio will be travelling to India Very Soon in a matter of months and that will be part of Quad as well as other initiatives @USAmbIndia pic.twitter.com/6r9Sp3Uf2h
— Siddhant Mishra (@siddhantvm) February 20, 2026
In Trump’s second term, the Quad has taken a backseat, in sharp contrast to the previous Joe Biden administration, where the group served as the fulcrum for countering Chinese designs in the Indo‑Pacific.
In the second Trump term, instead of competing with China,
Trump struck a ‘G‑2’ deal with Xi Jinping and withdrew from the Indo‑Pacific, focusing instead on the Western Hemisphere and West Asia where he has blown up dozens of boats in international waters, invaded Venezuela, threatened to invade Denmark’s Greenland Island, pursued a culture war in Europe, and ramped up the pressure campaign on Iran.
As a result, for the first time in years, the Quad Summit was not held in 2025. Analysts took that as a sign that neither the Indo‑Pacific nor the Quad were top priorities for the Trump administration.
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