Australia will host a clean energy summit next year under the Quad umbrella and take a bigger role in the supply of critical minerals in the Indo-Pacific region, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said. Morrison was speaking outside the White House at the end of the first in-person meeting of the leaders of Australia, the United States, India, and Japan which make up the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. The gathering of the four major democracies was being closely observed by China, which earlier this week said it was “doomed to fail.” Morrison said he and U.S. President Joe Biden were “on the same page” on China, which has been steadily increasing its military and political influence in the Indo-Pacific region to the alarm of the United States and others. “What we talked about today is how we achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific and the way you do that is that …