Nato statutes ‘clearly limit the scope to North Atlantic’, official says, with reports that president Macron personally objects to the idea
The patrols, which began in 2019 – before Russia sent its troops into Ukraine and Beijing and Moscow declared their “no-limits” partnership – are a result of long expanding bilateral ties built partly on a mutual sense of threat from the US and other military alliances.is apparently reluctant to support anything that fuels tensions between the alliance and China.
Japan’s top government spokesperson, Hirokazu Matsuno, declined to comment on Macron’s reported remarks, saying only that “various considerations” were under way inside Nato. “Asia lies beyond the geographical scope of the North Atlantic,” Wang Wenbin, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said in response to the FT report, according to Kyodo.
Nato, originally designed as a transatlantic security organisation against the Soviet-era Communist bloc, isin the face of a rising China, while also supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
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