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Collin Joh, an analyst at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, noted that this effort is part of a “progression from just bilateral to trilateral, and now quadrilateral maritime cooperative activity (MCA) formats” in the region.