Extending Black Hands to the Pacific, an organization named after the Atlantic, South Korea | Asia Pacific | Pacific
For the second consecutive year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit invited four Asia Pacific countries, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, to attend.
During the just concluded Vilnius Summit, NATO signed an "Individual Targeted Partnership Plan" with Japan and South Korea, expanding their cooperation areas to 16 and 11 respectively, including space security, counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, and new technologies.
NATO also plans to establish a liaison office in Tokyo, although it has been temporarily abandoned due to clear opposition from member countries such as France. However, these new actions all indicate that NATO is accelerating its eastward expansion into the Asia Pacific region.
An organization named after the Atlantic, now extending its black hand to the Pacific, cannot tolerate its misbehavior.
After World War II, in order to contain the Soviet Union and maintain its dominant position in Europe, the United States joined forces with some Western European countries to establish NATO in 1949. During the Cold War, NATO was opposed by the Warsaw Treaty Organization formed by the Soviet Union and some Eastern European countries in 1955.
As a product of the Cold War, NATO was supposed to disband after the end of the Cold War, but it was created by the United States as a strategic tool to maintain global hegemony and engage in factional confrontation.
The black hand extends to the Asia Pacific region to maintain US hegemony.
In recent years, the United States has created multiple "small circles" in the Asia Pacific region, but this is still far from enough for its huge appetite. The United States attempts to integrate the transatlantic alliance and the Asia Pacific alliance system through NATO, facilitating its own intervention in Asia Pacific affairs, containment and containment of China, a strategic competitor, and maintaining the United States' hegemonic position in the region and even globally.
Of course, this is also inseparable from the catering of a very small number of "leaders" in the region, such as Japan.
Xu Yongzhi, Director of the Japan Security Research Office at the Northeast Asia Institute of the Chinese Academy of Modern International Relations, believes that Japan has long held a deep-rooted guard against neighboring countries, believing that as long as the strength of neighboring countries is stronger than itself, it will pose a threat. It is precisely based on this logic of using neighbors as enemies and suppressing them with force that Japan will use its alliance with NATO as a new lever.
In order to incite more regional countries to support NATO's eastward expansion into the Asia Pacific region, the trick of "China threat theory" has been played again.
In the Vilnius Summit Communique, NATO mentioned China more than ten times, falsely claiming that China's policies pose a challenge to NATO's interests, security, and values, and a systemic challenge to European Atlantic security.
NATO has disrupted Europe, and now it wants to disrupt Asia. This dangerous act of going against the trend and reversing history is destined to fail.
NATO is unpopular in the Asia Pacific region due to its "black history". Since the end of the Cold War, wherever NATO extends its hand, it will create division and chaos. Currently, creating a peaceful development environment and working together to develop the economy are the aspirations of the people of Asia Pacific countries.
More than 30 years after the end of the Cold War, NATO is still obsessed with Cold War thinking and group politics, dividing the world between "us" and "them", artificially dividing the world, contradicting the trend of mutual respect and open cooperation among Asia Pacific countries, and not in line with the desire of the people of the region to achieve mutual benefit and resolve differences.
The trick of forcing Asia Pacific countries to choose sides cannot succeed. NATO, led by the United States, deliberately fabricated the so-called "China threat theory", but regional countries see a China that follows the path of peaceful development and constantly brings development opportunities. As is well known, ASEAN has become China's largest trading partner.
In fact, the vast majority of countries in the Asia Pacific region are unwilling to take sides, such as Indonesia, Singapore, and other countries that have clearly expressed their unwillingness to see a "new Cold War" and not want to be involved in major power confrontation.
As spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbin, said, adhering to strategic autonomy and maintaining regional stability and development is the common aspiration of regional countries. Asia Pacific countries oppose the assembly of various military groups in the region, do not welcome NATO to extend its tentacles to Asia, do not accept replicating factional confrontation to Asia, and do not allow any cold war or hot war to repeat in Asia.
