WASHINGTON–President Joe Biden is holding his first summit on Friday with the leaders of Japan, India, and Australia to step up the game on vaccine distribution in the Indo-Pacific to counter China’s influence in the region. The informal alliance called the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or “Quad” that consists of the United States, India, Japan, and Australia will discuss a wide range of topics including distribution of vaccines in the region, climate change, and critical technologies. The summit, which takes place virtually, is the first-ever leader’s level Quad meeting. The United States is working with the Quad partners to put together “complex financing vehicles” that will dramatically boost the capacity to create COVID-19 vaccines, up to a billion by 2022, a senior administration official said on March 11 during a conference call ahead of the summit. “This is one of several things that we’ve tried to undertake at the outset that put …