'What happens in Asia matters for Europe, and what happens in Europe matters for Asia,' said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Kishida will use the opportunity to stress the need for relations between Japan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to be stronger, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Friday, despite objections from Beijing over the alliance’s activities in the region. Kishida will be joined in Vilnius by leaders from South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
But there are some conceptual disagreements between allies on whether NATO’s focus should stay within the area of responsibilities of the alliance’s supreme commander, which extends from northern Europe to southern Europe and from the Atlantic coastline to eastern Turkey. Others want NATO to take a broader view on issues affecting the alliance’s security, said the diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"What happens in Asia matters for Europe and what happens in Europe matters for Asia,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who recently visited Japan and Korea, said in June. Europe, in turn, realizes it also must play a greater role in the Indo-Pacific, even if the specifics are still being debated.
"What we have to be careful about is that Japan’s strength as a country of course has limits,” said Akihisa Nagashima, a former vice-defense minister and now current member of the lower house security committee."If Japan has to take part in all NATO operations, its own vicinity will be neglected.” "The attitude of the majority of countries in the region is very clear. They oppose the emergence of military blocs,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters in June."They don’t welcome NATO’s outreach in Asia.”
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