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THE resumption of hostilities in the Gulf has pumped unexpected oxygen into a comatose Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad). More specifically, the Houthi militias blockade of Saudi shipping through the Bab-el-Mandeb and a revival of Somali piracy appear to have forced the US, militarily the Quads most powerful member, to shift gears on the four-member plurilateral group when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Manila last week for meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their partners, including India.