He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, on the National Security Council, and as a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain. Today, U.S. President Donald Trump will sweep back into power promising a new American approach to the world.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said the Trump administration is keen to have India present at the inaugural ceremony and added that the newly elected government was “clearly prioritising the bilateral relationship" between the two nations.

This meeting came after the inauguration of Donald Trump as president and was the first under his second term as President of the United States.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong met her Indian and Japanese counterparts in Washington and said the invitation for Quad foreign ministers to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration showed an "iron-clad commitment" to close cooperation in the Indo Pacific region.

China's relations are starting to improve with Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to the White House.

As Donald Trump returns, analysts say China will reshape its diplomatic landscape with nations that Joe Biden sought to court.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar attended the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting in Washington DC. Trump addressed the ongoing debate over the H-1B visa.

On Tuesday, one day after Donald Trump's inauguration, the foreign ministers of the Quad countries held a meeting in Washington. As the diplomatic "debut" of the new US administration, this meeting was clearly more about signaling a stance than providing details on cooperation.

The Donald Trump administration hit the ground running as the new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, hosted the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) hours after the oath ceremony. The meeting saw the leaders agree to New Delhi’s plan to host the Summit-level meeting of the grouping in India.

Rubio called China the "most potent, dangerous adversary" during his confirmation and is expected to work with India, Japan, and Australia to counter this.

On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as the Quad: the United States plus India, Japan and Australia, representing n