Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to stress East Asia risks when he meets with NATO leaders next week
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will join NATO leaders in Lithuania on Tuesday to remind an alliance focused on Ukraine to pay heed to Chinese and Russian activity in Asia, which Japan sees as a threat to global security.
“Japan talks about principles such as territorial integrity, but the message to Europe is ‘don’t forget about the Indo-Pacific, no matter how difficult the situation with Russia is’,” said Michito Tsuruoka, a NATO expert at Keio University. At the meeting in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, Japan is expected to be included in NATO’s Individually Tailored Partnership Program, opening the way for co-operation on cybersecurity, space and information sharing on China and Russia.
However, the military alliance is unlikely to agree to open an office in Tokyo in the face of French President Emmanuel Macron’s opposition to a move that could irritate China and open NATO up to accusations of geographical overreach. Another Japanese official involved in preparations for Kishida’s NATO visit said the idea of a NATO office in Japan had nothing to do with China, but that is how it became framed, and each NATO country has its own relations with China.
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