Why does NATO want to engage more actively in this region? | DW News

Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand are attending NATO's 75th anniversary summit in Washington. China's growing military strength and territorial ambitions, as well as its growing closeness to Russia, have prompted them to strengthen their ties with the alliance.

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00:00 NATO and its Asian partners moving closer
03:10 Mirna Galic, senior policy analyst for China and East Asia at the US Institute of Peace
10:32 Philip Shetler-Jones, Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institue
14:42 Angela Stent, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author

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[rodrigoescalante]

NATO is defending itself 40, 000 miles away ...

[_Dk]

So lets push Russia and China closer together.

[ИльяРезников-нз]

American position: "What happens in Indo-Pacific effects American security". Also America: "NATO enlarment to Russian borders is no threat to Russia." Yeah, makes sence...

[PositionM]

Funny how some humans creates enemies out of fear of “you’re better than me so I hate you”

[vincewsc]

here comes European dream of imperialism 2.0. invading Asia - again. why had not European not giving up imperialism after all these centuries????

[throughput]

We all saw what NATO did to the GMR in Libya. We in the southern hemisphere don't want those kind of neighbors

[tonyatgoogle]

The moment anyone say 'rule based international order', you can switch off.

[crashingintorice]

Nato is imperial alliance's and i predict that they will lose both cold war as well as a hot war

[畢仕達]

NATO wanted to change it name to WTO (world Treaty Organization)

[happymelon]

Mess up own house(EU), don't try to fix it, but want to mess up other house(Asia)

[kchong]

The big question is how NATO has behaved hypocritically.

[BslmUSA]

Just remind that Germany and Japan were two major countries invaded other countries cause WWII and killed billion people. Would they want to provoke WWIII?

[bolkysadventures]

NAATO....
North Atlantic and Asian Treaty Organization

There, I fixed it!

[cristinaximera]

DW again asking pundits for "analysis". But "US Institute for Peace" really is a good one LOL

[mapletibits]

If China is Russia’s enabler, then what does it make countries like India, Middle East, Latin America, even the Global South? Even US and EU still buys Russian fertilizer and gas, why not self critic about it?

[dominicjohnson]

NATO has no mandate in the Pacific it’s the same reason why Hawaii isn’t covered under the NATO charter.

[GIZMO]

Typical DW BS. China n Russia n the rest of the world cannot be friendly with each other's. What sort of rubbish 😂😂😂😂

[patrickcowan]

That north Atlantic sure gets around. Mission creep.

[emranahmed]

31 cowards are sending weapons simultaneously but Russia is still winning.
Blinken: China is making huge difference in battlefield 😂. Who is the real superpower now???😂

[Vanogar]

What kind of defensive alliance is this