The president has often said that “all politics is personal,” and on Saturday he opened his home in Wilmington to the leaders of Australia, India and Japan.

Leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States will announce plans for new security initiatives in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, when outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden hosts counterparts from the Quad grouping established due to shared concerns about China.

Biden’s team also warned Beijing not to finance Russian entities’ transactions to aid Vladimir Putin’s war machine, and the president signed an executive order that would allow him to impose secondary sanctions on such institutions – though he has yet to make use of those powers.