NATO’s challenges in the Asia-Pacific

Proponents of NATO expansion are trying to convince the “Indo-Pacific 4” (Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan) that this is the best thing Europe can do for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.

French President Macron opposes NATO expansion. The Left and the Alternative for Germany are calling for their country to leave the EU, stop the de-industrialisation and new despotism of Chancellor Scholz and the Greens.

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has branded the NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg a supreme fool for seeking to deepen the alliances ties with Asia. “Stoltenberg conducts himself as an American agent more than he performs as a leader and spokesperson for European security.”

The Japanese aren’t enthusiastic about NATO expansion given their lived experience of WWII.

Leading ASEAN diplomats like Kishore Mahbubani are asking whether the US wants to maintain primacy or improve the livelihood of its people?

China rejects NATO expansion. The PRC through BRICS+ is offering a winning combination of peace, development and mutual co-existence as opposed to wars and fake promises by the G7 corporate oligarchs, World Bank and the IMF.

India is nurturing ties not just with the US but also with family members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, BRICS+ and the Global majority who reject the unipolar world.

Indonesia is poised to join BRICS not NATO.

Is the NATO alliance the best way to creating a peaceful and stable world?

We need national, parliamentary and foreign/defence policy debate on the dangers to Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the world of NATO expansion.

The international security order is undermined by NATO through its hostile policies towards Russia, Ukraine, China, EU and Australia.  Through NATO expansion the world can become embroiled in a nuclear war.

NATO claims it is a defensive but its track record is of offensive wars in Europe and the Middle East.