Key facts
- Japan's Masanao Ozaki said the four Quad countries are arranging a Manila summit for Tuesday.
- The summit would be the Quad's first leaders' meeting since September 2024.
- Ozaki said leaders including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and US President Donald Trump are expected to reaffirm cooperation on economic security and AI.
- People familiar with the matter said deliverables focus on economic security and strategic infrastructure.
- Those people said the US is set to host the summit, which would depart from meetings held only in member states.
Japan, the United States, Australia and India are arranging a Quad leaders' summit in Manila for Tuesday, Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki told a press conference on November 13, 2026. Ozaki said the leaders, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and US President Donald Trump, are expected to reaffirm cooperation on economic security and artificial intelligence.
The meeting would be the grouping's first leaders' summit since September 2024, when the four met in the United States, and the first under the second Trump administration, Ozaki said. It would coincide with ASEAN-related meetings hosted by the Philippines.
People familiar with the matter told the Hindustan Times that member states expect to unveil deliverables focused on economic security and strategic infrastructure. Those people said the US is set to host the summit, a departure from meetings held only in Quad member states, and that the deliverables were finalized at a Quad foreign ministers' meeting on the margins of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta on October 31. That meeting produced outcomes including more than $85 million in technical and financial aid to back access to trusted artificial intelligence across the Indo-Pacific, the people said.
India was set to chair the leaders' summit in 2025, but its efforts to arrange the meeting last year were stymied by lack of clarity on Trump's travel plans, the people said. They added that timing remained unclear, with the summit expected in the later part of November 17 following the East Asia Summit, and that Modi is expected to arrive in Manila on the afternoon of November 16 and leave early on November 18.