This NATO will open Japan first Asian office next year. It is no small feat for an organization that was declared “brain dead” by French President Emmanuel Macron three years ago. Today, it is brimming with splendor with new European additions, rising like an elephant as the military is generalized and making a progressive descent. Asia. These are the consequences of the war in Ukraine, which Beijing fears as much as Washington misses.
The news was announced days ago by Japanese media ‘Nikkei Asia’ and confirmed by Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on CNN this Wednesday. they just talks, rushes to clarify, but common interests rule out failure. It was not disclosed whether a single person or special powers would pay the bill. Whether it will serve is unknown. Consultations with Japan and other countries in the region on matters security, geopolitical challenges, new technologies And cyber threats. The idea arose during a meeting in Tokyo in January between NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Japanese Prime Minister. Fumio Kishidaand three months later, a draft circulated among 31 member states. Deadlines suggest vertigo.
“The reason we are negotiating the office is because the world has become a more unstable place since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” Hayashi said. His speech has ample allusions to Moscow, and it’s true that, Russian-Japanese relations Its ratings were downgraded after Tokyo’s support for Kiev. Russian bombers and warships have flocked to the Sea of Japan in recent months. But it’s hard not to see inside Russia now to the temporary problem Chinese as the main goal of the office. The US is debating global supremacy with China, and Japan is picking up historical frictions and territorial disputes. There is no more enthusiastic supporter of US military policy in the region than Tokyo. Its exemplary pacifist constitution is already in jeopardy and has approved the largest increase in Defense since WWII. Only geography has separated Japan from NATO, and these boundaries are rapidly blurring.
new alliances
Japan, South Korea and Australia attended the NATO summit in Madrid for the first time last year. Office will deepen the Atlanticist organization’s footprint in the Pacific and it will mean another twist in China’s military strangulation. Washington already has tens of thousands of troops stationed in South Korea and Japan, sponsoring new military alliances such as AUKUS (with Australia and the United Kingdom) and QUAD (with Australia, India and Japan), and establishing more bases in the Philippines. The office is not devoid of symbolism, although it does not know its functions.
The news was met with predictable tension in Beijing. “Asia should not become a promising place for peaceful development and cooperation, a platform for those seeking geopolitical strife,” the State Department said last week. NATO’s eastward expansion and intervention in Asia-Pacific affairs will affect regional peace and security.” Beijing aligns with the Russian rhetoric that blames NATO for the turmoil in Ukraine and is anxiously acknowledging its arrival in its backyard.
qin gangThe biggest danger to Europe is a “certain country” that exports its own mentality, Chinese Foreign Minister said on Wednesday. The Cold War to the world and imposes unilateral sanctions.. Qin posted the riddle in Berlin, the first leg of a tour that would also take him to Paris and Oslo, and where he planned to separate Europe by a few centimeters from the United States. That country, Qin continued, abused its currency’s monopoly on global trade and transferred its inflationary and financial crises to the world.