The suggestion that my government “torpedoed” the first Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between Australia, India, the United States and Japan is nothing more than a lie. But it is just one of a long litany of errors in a piece (“Garcetti and China: Unease over Biden’s ambassador pick for India”, 24 July 2021) that presents no definitive evidence or empirical sources whatsoever to support its inaccurate and defamatory assertions.…