NATO is planning to open a liaison office in Japan next year, the alliance’s first in Asia, Nikkei Asia reported Wednesday.
In recent years, NATO has turned its gaze toward the Asia Pacific region and named China a “systemic challenge” in its 2022 Strategic Concept. As part of its strategy against China, the alliance is deepening cooperation with countries in the region.
According to Nikkei, the purpose of the liaison office in Japan is to “allow the military alliance to conduct periodic consultations with Japan and key partners in the region, such as South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as China emerges as a new challenge, alongside its traditional focus on Russia.”
The report said NATO and Japan will take more steps to increase cooperation by signing an agreement known as an Individually Tailored Partnership Programme ahead of the NATO summit that will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in June. Japan also plans to open an independent mission to NATO, separate from the Embassy in Belgium.
In response to the news, China warned of NATO’s plans to expand into Asia. “Asia is an anchor for peace and stability and a promising land for cooperation and development, not a wrestling ground for geopolitical competition,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning.
“NATO’s continued eastward foray into the Asia Pacific and interference in regional affairs will inevitably undermine regional peace and stability and stoke camp confrontation. This calls for high vigilance among regional countries,” she added.
Why is it that NATO can expand but it never contracts?……………………
The Neocon faith in their manifest destiny to global empire is truly touching, … a paradise of woke races of humble happy consumers and cubicle drones under an enlightened and visionary plutocracy — Bill and Elon and Les and Jamie … nso on with their philanthropic foundations and Davos workshops.
Can I get a cheeseburger with that? And some fries oh and a chocolate shake?….. 😉
Regular or biggie-size?
🙂
IT has to expand to justify it`s existance and the trillions spent on it .
It is called empire. The instant that an empire starts to contract marks the beginning of the end of its reign.
“NATO to Open Office in Japan, the Alliance’s First in Asia China warned against NATO’s ‘eastward foray into the Asia Pacific'”
NATO is an antiquated organization desperately searching for meaning in a post Soviet world.
Perhaps Stoltenberg failed geography and doesn’t know that Japan is not in the Atlantic Ocean!
The Soviets will rise again and NATO will be there to stop them….lol.
Don`t be a plonker . as for NATO lol two reasons NATO won`t take on Russia or China , one NATO won`t have air superiority and two when the body bags begin arriving back to NATO countries joe public will put a end to any NATO plans , remember Vietnam , Korea ? , to this day the numbers of soldiers lost in Korea is still classified , and so is the number of copters lost in Vietnam , the first rule of Chess is don`t underestimate your opponent , which you have clearly done.
So joking is not allowed but your snideness is?
Or perhaps your silly musings were meant to be a joke and just came off as silly instead of funny to me?
Either way thank you but that was kind of gibberish.
Geography didn’t stop NATO from invading Afghanistan and “taking out” numerous nations in the Middle East. It’s never been anything more than an extension of toxic US neocon/neolib foreign policy that is always expanding with a rapacious greed that knows no limit. Thankfully, that will ultimately be its undoing.
Will the name change to NPTO? Or maybe NATO Pacific? Time will tell. Will this office also require the approval of all 27 members?
Japan’s society has some serious long term problems that are manifesting themselves now. On a fundamental level Japan is decaying and they’re desperate to reverse that trend.
Koreans will be happy that Japan is going to help defend and possibly unify them.
That USSR must be up to no good.
The European NATO life is ending soon so US is desperate to open the Asian NATO…!
Opening in an ocean near you!
“Defensive alliance”
re: NATO and Japan will take more steps to increase cooperation by signing
an agreement known as an Individually Tailored Partnership Programme
So Japan will be a NATO “partner’ just like Ukraine is . . .hmmm.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization… Hmm, does seem an odd fit for the Pacific Ocean.
Are we looking at a potential NPTO in the making ? Though, adding the Philippines and Australia would nip that acronym in the bud…. 😉
Australia is part of NATO in all but name , it host 18 US bases .
It is one of those clubs, where all you have to do is pay the dues to belong.
Means absolutely nothing. With a dollar crisis and WW3 threat, NATO will collapse.
Means absolutely nothing. With a dollar crisis and WW3 threat, NATO will collapse.