NATO in Asia

Kishida champions the Free and Open Indo-Pacific message at the NATO summit.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will attend the NATO summit in Lithuania, not long after his first visit to China.

Speculations surrounding the impact of the proposed NATO office in Tokyo are wildly overhyped.

Although Indo-Pacific countries are seemingly receptive to the idea, NATO’s greater involvement in the region may well do more harm than good to security and stability.

Japan may not be located in the North Atlantic, but it and NATO are natural partners with increasingly overlapping interests and with much to offer each other. 

Stronger ties between NATO and Japan are mutually beneficial, reinforce Japan’s deterrence-based denial strategy, and should be institutionalized.

Insights from Liselotte Odgaard.

The Hipkins government is continuing to deepen Wellington’s ties with NATO. What will that mean for relations with China?

The best way Europe can support the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy is by shoring up European security – and freeing the U.S. to focus on providing security in the Indo-Pacific.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Japan and South Korea this week, part of a push to solidify NATO's ties with Indo-Pacific countries.

Despite, or rather because of, the Russia-Ukraine War, the West finally appears willing to take on the challenge of a rising China – perhaps even in the Indo-Pacific.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government are struggling to defend their reluctance to provide weapons amid growing pressure at home and abroad.