NATO is on track to enter the Asia-Pacific region, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has a keen eye for it. Will NATO be able to realize its plan? In any case, the quiet rise of the "anti-hegemonic" forces will play an effective role in containing NATO.
Putin has recently openly pointed out that the West is shifting NATO's activities to Asia through various means.
As Putin said, there are many ways for NATO to enter the Asia-Pacific region, but there are two main ones, one is to deliberately create tensions, and the other is to establish a political and military alliance.
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How did the West take advantage of regional tensions to speed up NATO's "Asia-Pacificization"?
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the West took the opportunity to quickly apply the NATO mechanism to the Asia-Pacific region. For example, soon after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the United States invited Japan, South Korea, Australia, and others to participate in various NATO meetings, including the Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the Military Council's Chiefs of Staff, and so on.
The immediate idea of the United States is to create new military ties with these Asia-Pacific countries through values diplomacy and put these countries on the opposite side of Russia. Driven by the diplomatic offensive of the United States and the psychology of political speculation in their own countries, these countries are becoming more and more "unclear" with NATO.
Since then, these Asia-Pacific countries have begun to carry out military and security cooperation with NATO and the United States more frequently. NATO also plans to open a so-called NATO liaison office in Tokyo, Japan, this year, with this as the center for military coordination with other Asia-Pacific allies.
In this way, NATO's military cooperation with Japan, South Korea, Australia, and other Asia-Pacific countries will become more concrete, and there will be a trend of normalization and institutionalization. In other words, NATO is equivalent to creating a base camp in the Asia-Pacific region.
In addition to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has also been used by the United States as an excuse to "strengthen the security situation". The purpose of the United States is very simple: to disrupt the world, it will have sufficient reasons to open the military door widely, and even more sufficient reasons for its allies to strengthen and expand their armed forces to satisfy the desire of the United States to contain China, Russia, and other countries.
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In addition, how did the United States "NATO" its Asia-Pacific allies through the establishment of a political-military alliance?
In addition to pushing NATO to take the initiative to extend its tentacles to the Asia-Pacific region, the United States has also paid attention to promoting alliance relations with its Asia-Pacific allies. Moreover, the United States is building its Asia-Pacific allies into a "networked" alliance system.
For example, the US-led "Quadrilateral Security Dialogue" mechanism and the US-UK-Australia AUKUS alliance are characterized by pulling European countries and NATO countries into the Indo-Pacific to serve the so-called "Indo-Pacific strategy" of the United States. In this process, Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries have played an increasingly important role in the alliance, and have gradually begun to "go both ways" with the United States and NATO.
Recently, the United States has made great efforts to deal with South Korea and the Philippines, with regard to the former the United States and Japan and the South Korea, and the United States has taken advantage of the South China Sea dispute between China and the Philippines to turn the Philippines into its own forward position in the Asia-Pacific region. The United States also encourages cooperation and cooperation among its Asia-Pacific allies to win over more peripheral allies in the Asia-Pacific region, for example, the United States encourages Australia to strengthen ties with Pacific island countries to contain China.
However, NATO also faces a number of challenges. Leaving aside the development of US adversaries, let's just say that the rise of "anti-hegemonic" forces around the world is an obstacle that NATO must face. This can be reflected in the attitudes of countries in the Global South after the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Countries in the Global South are becoming more and more aware that the West is opposing Russia and other countries that challenge the hegemony of the United States and the West under the banner of so-called "democracy". On this issue, more and more countries in the Global South are expressing a different position from the United States and the West.
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For example, on the issue of Ukraine, Saudi Arabia previously hosted the first international conference hosted by a non-Western country, and sent the strongest voice from the West and belonging to the South.
On the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States and the West still choose to turn a blind eye to the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel, which has aroused strong dissatisfaction among the countries of the Global South, which has also greatly damaged the international image of the United States and the West, and shows that the countries of the Global South are becoming more and more important in the global political landscape.
Recently, the United States has had to carry out some "discipline" on Israel, and the West's attempt to use the international arena to "isolate" Russia has failed, and the essence behind this is the rise of the countries of the Global South.
On the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, although the United States is making efforts to bring NATO into the Asia-Pacific region, it is very jealous of the opposition of the Asia-Pacific countries.
Facts have proved that this is not an era when the United States and the West can do whatever they want, and NATO's step-by-step involvement in the Asia-Pacific region may also be opening another crisis for itself.