The risk of letting NATO drift to the Pacific

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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