<h1>MALABAR-21&nbsp;</h1> <h2>Context:</h2> <ul><li>Recently, the Navies of the Quad (Quadrilateral Framework) Nations (India, the United States, Japan, and Australia) have participated in the 25th edition of the Malabar Exercise, which began off the coast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.</li></ul> <h2>About:</h2> <ul><li>It is a multilateral war-gaming naval exercise that was started in 1992. It began as a bilateral exercise between the navies of India and the United States</li></ul> <ul><li>From 2002 onward, the exercise has been conducted every year. Japan and Australia first participated in 2007 and since 2014, India, the US, and Japan have participated in the exercise every year</li></ul> <ul><li>In 2020 Australia joined the Malabar Exercise on India’s request in order to contain China in the Indo-Pacific region. For the first time in over a decade, Malabar 2020 saw the participation of all four Quad members.</li></ul> <h2>Quad:</h2> <ul><li>It is a&nbsp;four-nation alliance of India, Australia, the USA, and Japan&nbsp;which was&nbsp;established in 2007.</li></ul> <ul><li>It is often dubbed as an&nbsp;"Asian" North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO),&nbsp;&nbsp;and is viewed as a&nbsp;counterbalance to China's military and economic clout&nbsp;in the Indo-Pacific region.</li></ul> <h2>Guam Island:</h2> <ul><li>Guam is a US island territory in the North Pacific Ocean, which is much closer to China in the East than to the US mainland in the West.</li></ul> <img src="https://sunyaias-resources.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/content/6eec7217-3ecd-11ec-896b-09c39727a300.png">