China’s growing military prowess and increasingly aggressive foreign policy have revived talk among U.S. and European officials of creating an “Asian NATO” of regional powers to contain communist Beijing’s expansionist ambitions.
Past efforts for an East Asian security alliance, such as the post-World War II Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) to guard against Cold War-era communism, failed to gain lasting traction.
But that was before China’s emergence as a rising superpower — a reality NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said is “fundamentally shifting the global balance of power” in ways should motivate NATO itself to “become more global.”
Quietly, Trump administration officials have gone further. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun recently suggested that the informal defense alignment between the U.S., Japan, Australia and India already known as the Quad could be the beginning of a NATO-style alliance in Asia.
“It’s something that I think in the second term of the Trump administration or, were the president not to win, the first term of the next president, it could be something that would be very much worthwhile to be explored,” Mr. Biegun said at a U.S.-India strategic dialogue on Aug. 31.
Senior officials from the four powers — all of which had tense recent relations with China — held another virtual meeting on Friday, Indian newspapers reported.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs said the four countries called for a “free, open, prosperous and inclusive” Indo-Pacific region based on shared valued and respect for international law.
Mr. Biegun said last month that the Asian NATO would be about more than simply countering China, and could focus on broadly coordinating militaries and economies of the region’s smaller nations around a rules-based value system.
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WNU Editor: I am surprised that an Asian NATO has not yet emerged. But the trend lines are very clear. Expect an Asian version of NATO to counter China emerging in the next few years.
6 comments:
as the earth turn is vast news all around the world is a small deadly space man has lost there mind dont u think even a kid will tell u go kuukuu
Obviously, kidd is a little further along than Joe Biden. He almost writes pure word soup.
So it's basically the Worls in one side and China, north Korea and a couple other extremist countries on the other side
Suggest we call ourselves simply "the federation" and we can call the Chinese maybe Ferengi... lots of coincidental similarities
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Trying to get Japan and Korea on the same (cooperating) team will be quite a challenge. Still a lot of unhealed wounds from the war.
True about Korea and Japan, the real question is Taiwan. Will they include Taiwan or is that potato to hot. Taiwan is invaluable in the geographical and geopolitical arena.
Possession Taiwan gives Chinese subs covert and direct access to deep blue water. Plus it extends the buffer zone for east coast Chinese cites out 500 to 1,000 miles.
China will not give it up.
Biden will get elected. Expect War.
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