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Home / NATO / The risk of letting NATO drift to the Pacific
NATO, Alliances, Asia, China, Europe and Eurasia

July 16, 2024

The risk of letting NATO drift to the Pacific

By Daniel DePetris

The NATO summit in Washington was a relatively mundane event. The one surprise was NATO’s testier rhetoric on China, a country the alliance once viewed as a competitor but increasingly sees as an adversary (“NATO Wakes Up to the China Threat,” Review & Outlook, July 12).

NATO, however, shouldn’t be pushing into Asia or treating Europe and Asia as the same theater. The alliance’s campaign to solidify strategic relationships with like-minded countries such as Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand isn’t cost-free.

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