“Said he was “able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called the Quad to maintain stability in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.”
What PolitiFact found
President Joe Biden has helped revitalize the four-nation group, and he’s involved the member nations’ leaders more directly in its work. However, Biden didn’t "form" the group.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 21 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 May 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/21/remarks-by-president…
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