Tokyo — China's growing assertiveness and collaboration with Russia poses a threat not only to Asia but also to Europe, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday as he sought stronger cooperation and more "friends" for NATO in the Indo-Pacific region. Stoltenberg said China is increasingly investing in nuclear weapons and long-range missiles without providing transparency or engaging in meaningful dialogue on arms control for atomic weapons, while escalating coercion of its neighbors and threats against Taiwan, the self-ruled island it claims as its own territory.
"The fact that Russia and China are coming closer and the significant investments by China and new advanced military capabilities just underlines that China poses a threat, poses a challenge also to NATO allies," Stoltenberg told an audience at Keio University in Tokyo. "Security is not regional but global."
"NATO needs to make sure we have friends," he said. "It is important to work more closely with our partners in the Indo-Pacific."
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WNU Editor: I can easily see Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand being part of this alliance.
6 comments:
GL with that one
You can count in Vietnam. They bloodied China good in the late 70’s and would happily do so again.
Warmongering NATO not satisficed with a European presence, now it wants to expand to Asia, showing the world that NATO is the danger to world peace, not China.
a build-up of a counter force is hardly what is claimed above.
Too blind to see that it is China, North Korea causing the instability in the region, that needs alliance in response.
What about the bullying of china and its neighbors?
NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Just sayin
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