China urges 'high vigilance' over NATO expansion in Asia

Really? THAT’s who we should be concerned about, not the one’s building military bases on sandbars in International Waters ?

Like China has 700 plus bases around the World. NATO is spreading like a malignant cancer.

New empire NATO?

NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

It is not the NPTO = North Pacific Treaty Organization!

Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Asia was a "promising land for cooperation and development and should not be a battle arena for geopolitics".

so stop making it one.

No one cares what Communist China has to say. THEY are the ones militarily expanding, bullying all her neighbors and constantly threatening war.

Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Asia was a "promising land for cooperation and development and should not be a battle arena for geopolitics".

There is so much development going on ; Russia/China in Eastern Russia, Pakistan/China high speed railway.

A Chinese oil company has launched the drilling of Asia's deepest oil well on Monday in the Tarim Basin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (we all know where there is oil there are weapons of mass destruction and genocide.)

This part of the world is going to be filthy rich they know all they have to is keep developing .

Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Asia was a "promising land for cooperation and development and should not be a battle arena for geopolitics".

That is purely for the US China was embargoed for twenty years by the Americans and so no, that’s not going to happen again. There needs to be more Chinese bases in the West Philippines Sea to keep Americans honest.

Really? THAT’s who we should be concerned about, not the one’s building military bases on sandbars in International Waters ?

That is purely for the US China was embargoed for twenty years by the Americans and so no, that’s not going to happen again. There needs to be more Chinese bases in the West Philippines Sea to keep the US Navy honest.

If the choice is between NATO and China, well, who is even gonna think about choosing China? Only the delusional or the paid-off.

NATO has no right here. Full stop.

Communist China

go to China if you are a couch expert, and try a find a single communist. I’ve been many times and I never saw one. Flights are quite cheap.

Have to agree with the Chinese here.

I mean , look what happened to Ukraine and its opening up to NATO

China like MANY deem NATO as not adhering to its defensive mandate, rather opposite, Expansionary, especially regarding present conflict in Ukraine.

Furthermore, China & others view NATO as 'proxy' arm of US Govt., especially dangerous given volatility of US policy (e.g. Afghanistan) and leadership behavior/values.

China can rightly point to their track-record relative to US and NATO regarding involvement in Flashpoints, Coups, Wars, Proxy wars etc. in modern post WWII era.

GLOBAL SOUTH shifting to China, recent historical Mid-East Peace brokered by CHINA, 1.5 billion Muslims celebrate, Saudi Arabia & Iran peace accord after MANY decades of US NATO led wars in that region.

Record global military spending has MANY worried, except for organizations like NATO reaping $Benefits$, like any big business, NATO's looking for NEW markets!

spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Asia was a "promising land for cooperation and development and should not be a battle arena for geopolitics".

A place for easy coercion by China and this should not be disturbed by a strong defensive alliance that can counter China's belligerence and ensure freedom and free will for smaller nations.

"NATO's continual eastward expansion in the Asia-Pacific, interference in regional affairs, attempts to destroy regional peace and stability, and push for bloc confrontation calls for high vigilance from countries in the region," Mao told a regular press conference.

More Chinese lies and BS. NATO ensures peace and stability while China's continuing efforts to destabilise the peaceful status quo to gain control, is the only source for confrontation in the region.

Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand are already NATO "partners" so having an office in the region makes complete sense. It would naturally be in either Japan or Australia, and Japan was chosen.

The warmongering of China and Russia added to the sabre rattling by North Korea make this region a tinderbox that needs a stabilizing entity like NATO to discourage conflict. The best thing for the Asia region would be for the four NATO "partners" to become full members. Japan would need to alter article 9 to enable that, so membership for Japan is further in the future than the other three could be.

China wants the Asia region to be the China dominated and controlled region. The only problem for them is that nobody else in the region wants that to eventuate. They may have the biggest military force in the region but that does not mean they should or can dominate it. Just as Russia is the largest military in Europe but thanks to the NATO alliance it does not dominate Europe. Collective alliances work to maintain freedom and peace.

Lets bring NATO into the Asia Pacific region and secure a lasting peace and an open and lawful region for all.

"NATO's continual eastward expansion in the Asia-Pacific, interference in regional affairs, attempts to destroy regional peace and stability, calls for high vigilance from countries in the region," Mao Ning told a regular press conference.

Hmm,... . dah. . . . . Mao Ning??

Isn't this what China is doing now?

Why do you think so many Asian countries are entering into alliances with other countries?

To some extend, everyone is free to do what it wants, every sovereign country/entity is free to do what it wants, as long as it does not infringe on some one else's right.

Very soon, far sooner than you may think, such moves, will be in the opposite direction. Just remember the previous paragraph.

“Ning . . . said Asia was a promising for cooperation and development should not be a battle arena for geopolitics.”

Good! Then China can start by returning the islands it’s stolen from its neighbors to build military bases.

Is “High Vigilance” anything like Dean Wormer’s “Double-secret probation”?

And a voluntary collective self-defense treaty is exactly what the Indo-Pacific needs.

NATO is the world's most dangerous international terrorist organization..

NATO is the world's most dangerous international terrorist organization..

Wow, they sound terrible. What do you think China and Russia should do to stop them doing terrorist thingies?

NATO ran away from Afghanistan after defeated by Taliban. And they were having an infighting within the members about aiding Ukraine.

An office of NATO is good for crying for help but nothing in actions!

Generally China has always preferred peaceful settlements of disputes with its neighbors and was generous in the settlements.

If it wants it can just roll over many of its much smaller neighbors especially now.

Generally China has always preferred peaceful settlements of disputes with its neighbors and was generous in the settlements.

This is sentence is wrong in so many ways.

Let's ask the people of Tibet, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong and the Philippines about peaceful settlements.

NATO ran away from Afghanistan after defeated by Taliban

Coward Russia ran away from Afghanistan after being defeated by the Mujahideen.

They are still cowards, and still running away.

Democracies across globe, although not without there flaws, are in threat of extinction to dictatorships that want to extinguish the freedoms fought for through devastating wars.

Now in danger again from the Governments of China, Russia, North Korea, Iran.

NATO is the last defense to stop these regimes, however these tyrants must believe we are united in our resolve to defend our freedoms at any cost.

If the Government of Japan, its people wish to join NATO, that is there choice to, and NATO members must offer every means to guarantee Japan the willingness to stand together.

Does it mean the era of the U.S.A. is coming to an end in this Pacific region? Before WWII, it was Great Britain that ruled the region as a dominant hegemonic power. After WW II, the U.S. took the place of Great Britain for that. Now, it seems NATO is trying to dip into the situation now that the U.S. hegemony is about to be over.

China is entering a demurer against it. Does it want to be a hegemon of the region itself?

To be sure, nineteen-century colonialism is not completely over as yet. What have all these countries learned from WWII?

The Charter of NATO does not allow expansion outside of the North Atlantic.

NATO is hugely hypocriticaly doublestandardized as it says it seeks to make biological and chemical and weapons of mass destruction obsolete whilst it's members and most notably the USA still stockpile those weapons and has used them recently.

Why do I think this is the usual BS where, if you provided a source, it would mean absolutely nothing or would be a case where Russia and China failed to uphold their obligations as well?

Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Asia was a "promising land for cooperation and development and should not be a battle arena for geopolitics".

China is the one country in Asia that is destabilizing the region with geopolitics. All other nations are simply responding to it. Typical Chinese hypocrisy.

Oh Awa no Gaijin, there is one aspect of living here that can if necessary be brutally communicated.

The people have a choice and will exercise it.

Just not in the manner that western cultures recognize.

Please just for a moment humor me.

There was a storm I was told unprecedented, that laid my fruit and vegetable garden to waste, it had taken me two years of toll to create.

The community came on mass even the local police to help me clear up. They insisted.

That taught me all the ships here sail in the same direction.

I was invited to functions that represented what some would contend to be political motivated agenda related.

I was introduced to a friendly consensus however focused on the need to maintain the status quo.

Japan will not join any organization without control and guarantees.

Escalation, to include NATO expansion feeds WEAPONS Proliferation Strategy of Russia to states like Iran, NK, China and THEIR MANY Non-State actors to include latest craze -"Mercenary Groups" like Wagner. China's doing same naturally, land, air and sea based.

Meanwhile World's OTHER BIG Problems stay unsolved, as we waste time, $ & energy to risk Armagedón

NATO does not supply weapons to any country.

NATO pursuing recruit of countries especially and important Operational Leadership function over its Member States and proxies like Ukraine.

Largely private Military Industrial Complex provides weapons to NATO Member states militaries, land/sea/air/space, based on their budgeting considerations etc. These days, those budgets HUGE!

Government these days just BIG Buyer, hardly any innovation stems from public sector to include Defense.

Many NATO countries manufacture their own weapons or with several other members. The important point is that the weapons of NATO countries are standardized across the member countries allowing troops from different nations to fight together.

Stephen ChinToday  07:05 am JST

NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

It is not the NPTO = North Pacific Treaty Organization!

NATO's activities are not restricted to the North Atlantic. NATO forces entered Afghanistan in 2004.

Does it mean the era of the U.S.A. is coming to an end in this Pacific region? 

Yes, if the US can’t go it alone and needs 5 other countries then yeah, its military can’t stand toe to toe with China. It’s all about deterrence.

RodneyToday 08:12 am JST

NATO has no right here. Full stop.

NATO has the right to be anywhere it is invited to be.

If the Japanese government did not want NATO to set up an office in Japan then it would be stopped. It is Japan's choice to be a "NATO partner" as it is with South Korea and Australia. This is not NATO trying to expand, but NATO being courted by nations in Asia Pacific region. In the same way NATO was courted by Eastern European nations that wanted protection from Russian aggression and coercion.

The good news is you live in a free country so can move elsewhere if you are unhappy about Japan's associations with NATO. Perhaps moving to China or North Korea where NATO is unwelcome would suit you better?

US can’t go it alone and needs 5 other countries then yeah, its military can’t stand toe to toe with China. It’s all about deterrence.

Deterrence KEY but it's not so simple as WMDs anymore in this complex world we find ourselves.

NATO's recruitment in Asia and elsewhere unrelated to their existing OVERWHELMING WMD deterrence.

It's effort to build conventional deterrence, while outsourcing to New Member countries, like what's happening in Ukraine. NATO gains power and control, cake and eat too, while keeping their hands clean.

Military BIG business after all, HARD POWER kind of the opposite of Democracy and SOFT POWER, things like Free Speech, Freedom of the Press, etc.

Nothing controversial about above TRUTH!

Here we go again, NATO didn't do enough to encroach on Russia and set off a whole chain reaction, now it wants to do the same in Asia.

I guess the USA and Europe just cannot deal with the idea they are not going to be the world power indefinitely and that China, India South America are rapidly catching up and in some things surpassed them.

NATO has the right to be anywhere it is invited to be.

Let me see!:

North

Atlantic

Treaty

Organization

Sounds to me like they are far out of their territory.

Seem an awful lot like colonialism again, predominantly white European and North American countries coming over to tell the Asians how to do things or what to do or what these predominantly white European countries want them to do.

Here we go again, NATO didn't do enough to encroach on Russia and set off a whole chain reaction, now it wants to do the same in Asia.

Well said, we can have peace and security without posing threats to others. Actually, if one believes the polls, large majority of Europeans AGREE with YOU and do not support US NATO Ukraine Proxy War.

Especially in light of Damaging US CIA Intel, see Salon, excellent progressive investigative journalism, vetting such leaked CIA intel and sharing their analysis. SCARY!

https://youtu.be/zYF4-53fMa8

Sky news on people realizing the USA is just causing trouble and trying to make more money on selling weapons.

So many here go on about Russia, China, but what country is the most responsible for war in the world?

Well simple, what country exports more weapons.

Top weapons exporters

USA 40%

Russia 16%

France 11%

China 5.2%

Only one country is healthy dependent on war to make money.

Figure which one that is, the answer is in the numbers above.

Sky news on people realizing the USA is just causing trouble and trying to make more money on selling weapons.

So many here go on about Russia, China, but what country is the most responsible for war in the world?

BINGO again, US NATO alliance been greatest WAR monger in HISTORY. Nobody can name war, coup, proxy war, etc. since WWII with US involvement.

Make no mistake, many here dream of Russia becoming like Ukraine, another US proxy force, that's the agenda.

Reason's simple, MONEY & POWER, US NATO Ukraine Proxy War NO different, only COSTS and Risks Much Greater, STAKES Much Greater, specifically Global Inflation, Starvation, Malnutrition, Weapons Proliferation & Dangerous Miliary Escalation to name a few...

quercetumToday  03:08 pm JST

Does it mean the era of the U.S.A. is coming to an end in this Pacific region? 

Yes, if the US can’t go it alone and needs 5 other countries then yeah, its military can’t stand toe to toe with China. It’s all about deterrence.

The United States most certainly can go it alone. But our allies are democracies who are willing to stand up to your Chinese dictatorship. China would have a very difficult time trying to defeat the U.S. alone. With it's allies it would be impossibe. Really so eager to start WWIII? Best stop this nationalistic chest beating.

Really so eager to start WWIII? Best stop this nationalistic chest beating.

Well said and agreed, only it's not just about conflict but rather sustainable healthy relations in order to solve great PROBLEMS together, that's humanity!

Above, TOUGH to accomplish with an agenda driven transactional war machine called US NATO alliance!

Weapons are also needed for defense.

Who would buy Russian weapons after their failures in Ukraine?

Good to know we have weapon analyst present, QA expert, that's re-assuring and vitally important!

As clearly mainstream media's been busy testing these weapons systems and reporting honest findings!

Translation: "fishing crews" with cannons will be out in waters China doesn't own.

"NATO did not conduct any operation during the cold war though it was already in existence.NATO’s mandate initially was to protect its territories from any threat of the Warsaw Pact. After the 1949 agreement, NATO’s scope was expanded to cover peacekeeping and conflict resolutions."

Since then NATA was involved in 8 Major NATO Military Interventions. 1990-2011.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/major-nato-military-interventions.html

Since the end of the Cold War, Allies have dramatically reduced the number of nuclear weapons stationed in Europe and their reliance on nuclear weapons in the NATO strategy. No NATO member country has a chemical or biological weapons programme.

NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Despite the nomenclature, it includes non-Atlantic countries like Italy, Greece, Turkey, Canada and the U.S.  Former Soviet bloc countries like Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Poland have also joined it. 

So, NATO is not an organization composed of only north Atlantic countries. It's quite natural then that Putin's Russia feels contained and encroached upon. This, I think, is a remote cause of the Ukrainian war now being fought.

At present, China is relatively stable compared to the United States. The idea of "unlawful and aggressive" proposed by "accelerationism" is actually a conspiracy of the United States.

I never provide links to anything.

Lol. I'll take that as proof you got nothing.

NATO's arms control agenda of chemical /biological / and weapons of mass destruction is a giant deceptive doublestandardized hypocritical lies.

Russia's weapons of mass destruction are so prevalent, they are ending up poisoning their overseas citizens!

So, NATO is not an organization composed of only north Atlantic countries. It's quite natural then that Putin's Russia feels contained and encroached upon. This, I think, is a remote cause of the Ukrainian war now being fought.

You're going to have to explain to me how a country in no danger of entering NATO was even a remote cause of a conflict.

At present, China is relatively stable compared to the United States. The idea of "unlawful and aggressive" proposed by "accelerationism" is actually a conspiracy of the United States.

Tell that to the people near the "fishing boats" with cannons traveling around the South China Sea.

NATO has the right to be anywhere it is invited to be.

Let me see!:

North

Atlantic

Treaty

Organization

Sounds to me like they are far out of their territory.

So

What

Your concern is about the name of the organisation that originated in the North Atlantic in 1949? Now in 2023 they have partners in other parts of the world. As many things globalize you personally think NATO should be banned from doing what many other organizations are allowed to do. Modernize and grow with the times. NATO is allowed to grow as invited to do so. NATO has partners like Sweden, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and even Ukraine. Serbia has also grown closer to NATO in the past two decades. Sweden will soon become a full member as Finland has already become, thanks to fear of more Russian aggression.

I have no problem with my country becoming a member of NATO if given the opportunity to do so. The fact we are in the Indo-Pacific and not the North Atlantic is no issue or barrier as far as I am concerned. If Japan or others in the Asia region want membership, (not talking about anti west elements) they are free to apply at any time but all must qualify as every other nation in NATO already has done.

While some nations with their own agendas want to keep such a large defensive organisation out of regions they wish to dominate, others welcome the stability and safety NATO provides to its members. Countries like China and Russia building up militaries makes everyone nervous as they are neither trusted or believed.

We see how that works so well in Europe

We see how that works so well in Europe

NATO hasn't been invaded in 80 years. I'd say that is pretty successful.

TaiwanIsNotChinaMay 6 11:24 am JST,

Isn't it the fact that Ukraine wants to join NATO? Of course, you can't use force to prevent that as Vladimir Putin did against a sovereign nation.

The only reason countries in Asia are asking to be part of NATO is because China is posing a threat to them. Therefore my advice to China, cease and desist threats to countries in Asia!!!

Good. Let China be alarmed. It is threatening countries in the region left and right. High time the rest of the world hem this thuggish country in, and should it resort to military aggression, derecognize it, ban it from all international agencies and give Taiwan full UN status.