The leaders of New Zealand, Japan and South Korea will attend the NATO summit for the third consecutive day, starting on Tuesday in Washington, DC, when Australia will send its deputy prime minister. China, alarmed by the growing passion for alliance beyond Europe and the Western Hemisphere, is perhaps keeping an eye on the top.
“Increasingly, partners in Europe see the challenges of the other half of the world as relevant to them, as do partners in Asia Challenges halfway around the world in Europe Being relevant to them,” Environment Secretary Antony Blinken said on his final day at the Brookings Institution.
The US control diplomat said the US is working to resolve differences between EU alliances, Asian alliances and international allies. “It’s part of the new landscape, the new geometry that we’ve established.”
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that NATO allies and Indo-Pacific partners will create four untested joint projects on Ukraine, artificial intelligence, disinformation and cybersecurity.
“Each initiative is different, but the core goal is the same: to harness the unique strengths of highly capable democracies to address shared challenges,” Sullivan said at a security business discussion board.
Nations with shared security concerns have healthy relations Tension has increased between America and China regarding the festival, Washington is trying Curb Beijing’s ambition To challenge the US-led global chain, which the Chinese government dismisses as a Cold War mentality aimed at halting China’s inevitable rise.
Beijing has responded angrily to the prospect of deepening cooperation between NATO and its four Indo-Pacific partners.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian on Monday accused NATO of “overstepping its limits, expanding its mandate, reaching beyond its defense zone and provoking confrontation.”
The fighting in Ukraine, which has pitted the West against Russia and its friends, has strengthened the argument for closer cooperation between the US, Europe and their Asian allies. Eastern High Minister Fumio Kishida informed the US Congress in April, “Today’s Ukraine could be tomorrow’s East Asia.”
America and South Korea accused Pyongyang Ammunition supply to RussiaDate Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea for the first time and signed an agreement with leader Kim Jong Un mutual military support,
Meanwhile, South Korea and Japan are sending military supplies and backup to Ukraine. America also says this China is offering device gear to RussiaMicroelectronics and the alternative era that allowed it to make guns worth Ukraine’s side.
South Korean President Yun Suk-yeol will deliver a strong message to Washington “regarding military cooperation between Russia and North Korea and will discuss ways to enhance cooperation between NATO allies and Indo-Pacific partners,” his primary deputy for national security said. The adviser, Kim Tae-hyo, informed reporters on Friday.
Christopher Luxon, New Zealand’s senior minister, said the discussion would “focus on our collective efforts to support a rules-based system.”
Mirna Galic, senior policy analyst for China and East Asia at the US Institute of Entertainment, said the partnership no longer makes NATO an immediate partner in the Indo-Pacific, but allows it to coordinate with the four partners on issues of mutual concern . For example, they wrote in one study, they may share information and align on movements such as sanctions and backup supplies but do not intervene in military crises outside their own territories.
According to Louis Simon, director of the Center for Security International Relations and Techniques at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, NATO’s heightening would allow the US and its EU and Indo-Pacific allies to move closer to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
“The fact that the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific alliances are structured around a clear foundation – US military power – makes them more cohesive and gives them a strategic edge compared to the interlocking partnerships that bind China, Russia, Iran . and North Korea,” Simon wrote in a statement last week on the security and foreign affairs site Struggle at the Rocks.
Zhu Feng, dean of the College of Global Research at Nanjing College in east China, said Beijing is concerned about NATO’s pivot to the east. Beijing has insisted that NATO will no longer interfere in security matters in the Indo-Pacific and that it must change its view of China as a strategic rival.
“NATO should regard China as a positive force for regional peace and stability and global security,” Zhu said. “We also hope that the Ukraine war can end as soon as possible… and we have rejected a return to a triangular relationship with Russia and North Korea.”
“In today’s unstable and fragile world, Europe, the US and China must strengthen global and regional cooperation,” Zhu said.
There was a minor war between NATO and China until tensions between Beijing and Washington escalated in 2019, with the NATO summit in London on the same day posing a “challenge” to China that “we must address together as an alliance.” need to.” Two years later, NATO upgraded China to a “systemic challenge” and said Beijing was “cooperating militarily with Russia.”
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand attended the NATO summit for the first time in a year, where statements noted the geopolitical challenges posed by China. Beijing accused NATO of “collaborating with the US government to carry out all-out repression of China”.
Now, Beijing is concerned that Washington is launching a NATO-like alliance within the Indo-Pacific.
Chinese senior colonel Cao Yanzhong, a researcher at China’s Institute of War Research, asked for maximum time from US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Did America ever want to create an Asian model of NATO or not? By emphasizing partnerships and alliances. They are joined by Britain and Australia along with an American group; with Australia, India and Japan each second; and one with Japan and South Korea.
“What impact do you think a strengthening of the US alliance system in Asia-Pacific will have on the security and stability of the region?” Cao requested the Shangri-La discussion in Singapore at high altitude.
Austin responded that the US was once only dealing with “like-minded countries with common values and a common vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific”.
Beijing has its own conclusions.
Chinese Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng said, “The real intention of the US Indo-Pacific strategy is to integrate all the small circles into one big circle as an Asian version of NATO to maintain hegemony led by the United States.” On the discussion board.
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AP researcher Chen Wanqing in Beijing and AP essayist Amer Madani in Washington contributed to this document.
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