NATO, and now EU, efforts to expand into Asia

January 30, 2024

So far the attempt to open a NATO office in Tokyo has been blocked by a France which very rightly points out how the NATO charter restricts its concerns to Europe.

But that has not stopped the militaristic minded NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, from insisting the security of Asia and the Indo-Pacific also come within the orbit of NATO concern.

Security is no longer regional; security is global, he said during a panel discussion at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos.

And now we are supposed to believe that for the EU which is charged solely with European economic well-being, the Indo-Pacific is also takes centre-stage in EU security policy.

That at least was the blurb for a recent speech here in Tokyo at the Right-leaning Temple University by a leading member of the Brussels School of Governance (VUB):

Since the 2016 Global Strategy, the EU is on a journey to become a more active and particularly a more recognised global player, recognising that security has become indivisible and that this needs a comprehensive engagement, in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region respectively.

So there we have it. Not just NATO but the EU too has decided that when it comes to so-called security, Asia is part of Europe.

This hegonomistic security creep needs to be killed at birth.

We have seen what it did to Europe - forced a defenceless Serbia to allow the creation of an artificial narco-state, Kosovo, harbouring yet another US base, Camp Bondsteel. God forbid it should be allowed to extend its grubby hands into Asia.