Biden meets privately with world leaders ahead of secretive Quad

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President Biden is meeting privately with the three other world leaders that make up the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue at his Delaware estate.

The White House released statements acknowledging the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida already, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was spotted arriving at the home on Saturday.

The meetings are taking place in the president’s hometown of Wilmington — an excessively private affair that has sparked outrage from the White House Correspondents’ Association.

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US Secret Service agents guard the entrance of President Joe Biden’s in Wilmington, Delaware. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The foreign leaders are invited to a low-profile dinner on Saturday night hosted at Archmere Academy, the president’s former school.

Administration officials have tried to characterize the unusual format and venue for the event as a gesture of hospitality, but media figures have protested the private nature of Biden’s final meeting with the world leaders.

“These are personal relationships that mean a lot to him. And he believes personal relationships are important to foreign policy,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby previously told the press.

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