In addition, we need effective collaboration on pressing global issues among all the major powers — including such newly emerging ones as Brazil, India, Nigeria, and South Africa. We need to give all of them a stake in upholding the international order. We need a global response to climate change that includes binding and enforceable commitments to reducing emissions, especially for those that pollute the most: the United States, China, India, the European Union, and Russia.

John McCain

Success in Afghanistan is critical to stopping al Qaeda, but success in neighbouring Pakistan is just as vital. We must continue to work with President Pervez Musharraf to dismantle the cells and camps that the Taliban and al Qaeda maintain in his country. These groups still have sanctuaries there, and the ‘Talibanisation’ of Pakistani society is advancing. The United States must help Pakistan resist the forces of extremism by making a long-term commitment to the country...

India’s prime minister has called liberal democracy “the natural order of social and political organisation in today’s world.” Asian countries are drawing closer together, striking trade and security agreements with one another and with other states... As president, I will seek to institutionalise the new quadrilateral security partnership among the major Asia-Pacific democracies: Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.