https://www.scmp.com/rss/518727/feed Benedict Baxendale-Smith is a doctoral researcher at King’s College London in the Defence Studies Department, and the Cuthbert Collingwood Associate Fellow in Maritime Strategy at the Council on Geostrategy. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Nato is a transatlantic security apparatus at its core but, increasingly, there are calls for the alliance to expand into the Indo-Pacific, which has become the new centre of global attention. As Nato’s partners in the Asia -Pacific, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand attended its summit in Madrid, Spain, in 2022 for the first time and were again present at the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, last year. Dubbed the “Asia-Pacific 4”, their inclusion underscored the rising importance of... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3261440/nato-needs-allies-asia-does-it-need-indo-pacific-presence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3261440/nato-needs-allies-asia-does-it-need-indo-pacific-presence?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 May 2024 11:30:25 +0000