Creating Conflict Confrontation Serving U.S. Hegemony

　　"Asia-Pacific NATO" Seriously Threats Regional Security (Global Hotspot)

　　Our reporter Li Jiabao

　　The US-ASEAN Leaders' Meeting has just ended, and US President Joe Biden has embarked on his first trip to Asia in his tenure, and will attend the summit of the US-Japan-India-Australia "Quartet Security Dialogue" mechanism in Tokyo, Japan on May 24.

Strengthening the so-called "extended deterrence" of the United States has become one of the important topics in the talks between the leaders of the United States, South Korea and the United States and Japan.

The outside world also noticed that on the morning of May 21, the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the US Navy, docked at the Yokosuka base of the US military stationed in Japan for the first time.

　　In recent years, the United States has stepped up efforts to win over countries in the Asia-Pacific region through the "Indo-Pacific Strategy", and tried to piece together an "Asia-Pacific version of NATO" through military alliances.

It upholds the Cold War mentality and confronts various acts that exaggerate security threats by creating conflicts, which seriously threatens the security and stability of the Asia-Pacific region.

In this regard, countries in the Asia-Pacific region need to be highly vigilant.

　　Accelerate the pace of expansion

　　For some time, the United States has focused its diplomacy on Asia, and NATO under its leadership has also significantly accelerated the process of "Asia-Pacificization".

In April this year, a meeting of NATO foreign ministers was held in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss NATO's new strategic vision.

In the name of "Global Partnership", the conference invited the foreign ministers of four Asia-Pacific countries, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, to participate for the first time.

NATO also revealed recently that it has invited the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to attend the NATO summit to be held in Madrid, Spain in late June.

In addition, South Korea recently announced that it has joined the NATO Cooperative Cyber ​​Defense Center of Excellence, becoming the first Asian country to join the organization.

　　"In the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, NATO has been further instrumentalized and weaponized by the United States." Xu Xiujun, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out in an interview with this reporter that the United States regards NATO as a response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The strategic pillar tries to bring more issues into the NATO framework.

　　As a military alliance organization, NATO has always promoted military cooperation in the name of "defense".

Recently, the United States, Britain, France and other NATO member states have carried out high-profile military cooperation with Asia-Pacific countries and stepped up the establishment of an Asia-Pacific military alliance system.

　　In April, the White House issued a statement by the leaders of the US-UK-Australia Trilateral Security Partnership (AUKUS), announcing that it would develop hypersonic weapons.

In May, the UK and Japan reached a principled agreement to allow the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the British military to achieve "mutual access", a move that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said would "strengthen the UK's commitment to the Indo-Pacific region."

Japan's Defense Ministry also announced a few days ago that it will participate in the "multilateral exercise" hosted by France in the South Pacific region for the first time.

　　When the geopolitical situation in Europe is tense, politicians from NATO countries frequently hype and exaggerate security threats to Asia-Pacific countries.

Recently, British Foreign Secretary Truss advocated a "global NATO" in a speech, saying that "it must be pre-emptive and work with allies such as Japan and Australia to ensure the protection of the Pacific region."

　　"The United States has been trying to organize its Asia-Pacific allies to form a complete alliance system like the European allies, that is, to create an Asia-Pacific version of 'Little NATO'. After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, NATO's expansion into the Asia-Pacific region became more obvious." China International Issues Yang Xiyu, a researcher at the Institute, pointed out to this reporter that NATO is a regional military organization that has been established for more than 70 years.

Now it is stepping up its expansion from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indo-Pacific Ocean and the world to realize the globalization of NATO's military functions.

This is the most important trend of NATO at present, which will have an impact on the strategic balance of Europe, the Asia-Pacific and even the world.

　　America dominates

　　According to Japan's Asahi Shimbun, in response to Biden's trip to Asia, US Presidential National Security Advisor Sullivan pointed out that "the US leadership will be demonstrated in the Indo-Pacific region." There are also many US politicians and media hyping up , claiming that the trip will create a "security and economic alliance against China".

　　"In recent years, the U.S. strategic center of gravity has moved eastward." Yang Xiyu pointed out that with the uneven development of the world economy and politics, the Asia-Pacific region has increasingly become the new economic and political center of the world.

In order to maintain its global leadership, the United States must focus its strategy on the Asia-Pacific.

"From the 'Asia-Pacific rebalancing' strategy of the Obama administration, to the 'Indo-Pacific strategy' proposed by the Trump administration, to the continued enrichment and strengthening of the 'Indo-Pacific strategy' by the Biden administration, the United States has increasingly strengthened its political and military presence in the Asia-Pacific."

　　Following the pace of the United States, NATO has also continued to reach out to the Asia-Pacific.

In 2021, NATO will throw out a new strategic concept "NATO Agenda 2030". While listing Russia as its main opponent, it will hype up the "China threat", claiming to reduce the differences in threat perception among member states and strengthen political integration. .

Under the pretext of promoting regional cooperation, the United States has also created a closed and exclusive "small circle" in the Asia-Pacific region, tightened bilateral military alliances, and engaged in bloc politics and geopolitical games.

　　"The eastward shift of the United States' strategic focus has never been to focus its strategic projection on the Asia-Pacific, but to shift its alliance system eastward." Yang Xiyu pointed out that relying on the alliance system to support its global hegemony is a strategic mindset of the United States.

The transfer of NATO functions to the Asia-Pacific region also constitutes an important support for the eastward shift of the US global strategic center of gravity.

　　"The purpose of NATO's continued expansion after the end of the Cold War is to realize the hegemonic ambition of the United States." The website of the "India Express" pointed out in an article.

　　Xu Xiujun pointed out that in recent years, with the rise of emerging economies and other changes in the world situation, the strength and international influence of the United States have declined relatively.

The United States regards NATO as an important tool for maintaining regional and global hegemony: first, it uses the NATO mechanism to strengthen its control over its allies, which has a direct impact on the policy positions of other NATO member states; competitor".

In the Asia-Pacific region, the United States is trying to implement the so-called "Asia-Pacific version of NATO" by promoting the "Indo-Pacific strategy" and replicate the practice of "controlling allies" and "containing opponents" in the Asia-Pacific region.

　　Be wary of security dilemmas

　　The Russian-Ukrainian conflict caused by the repeated eastward expansion of NATO is still continuing, causing huge security risks and humanitarian disasters.

What will the US move to create an "Asia-Pacific version of NATO" bring to the peace and development of the region?

　　Yang Xiyu pointed out that NATO has pushed the European continent into a security dilemma.

NATO divides European countries into two groups, those inside and outside the collective security system.

If NATO wants to strengthen "collective security", it will inevitably exacerbate the insecurity of countries outside the NATO system, and the European security dilemma will follow.

Europe has struggled with this security dilemma since the Cold War era.

The eastward expansion of NATO has further exacerbated the European security dilemma and is a deep-seated reason for the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

"At present, the globalization of NATO will inevitably bring this security dilemma to the world. Asia-Pacific countries need to be highly vigilant in this regard."

　　The US "Diplomat" magazine recently published an article that most developing countries have obvious differences with the West led by the United States in dealing with the Ukraine crisis. "The attitude of these countries reflects the vigilance of intensifying geopolitical confrontation."

　　Xu Xiujun pointed out that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has brought an important enlightenment to the security of the Asia-Pacific region: upholding the Cold War mentality and relying on military alliances to pursue absolute security will only worsen the regional security environment and fail to effectively guarantee its own security.

NATO has always pursued the concept of pursuing its own absolute security, ignoring the indivisibility of security issues.

In today's highly interconnected world politics and economy, all countries are a community with a shared future where you have me and I have you.

The narrow security concept of NATO is not only out of the trend of the times, but in reality, it has created turmoil around the world and even caused wars in Europe.

　　"Asia-Pacific countries should draw lessons from history and reality, establish a new concept of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, take a new path of dialogue, non-confrontation, partnership and non-alignment, win-win and non-zero sum, properly resolve differences and disputes, and at the same time We need to be alert to the actions of countries outside the region to create division and confrontation in the region." Xu Xiujun said that the Asia-Pacific region is one of the regions with the greatest development potential in the world.

Most of the Asia-Pacific countries are developing China. They should cherish the hard-won situation of peaceful development and take development as the top priority.

　　Yang Xiyu said that in order to maintain lasting peace and general security in the region, Asia-Pacific countries should do two things well: First, at a time when NATO's eastward expansion has exacerbated global strategic imbalances and the world is turbulent, Asia-Pacific countries should strengthen strategic and policy coordination, adhere to the Focus on economic development, reduce security conflicts and competition risks, and lay a solid foundation for regional peace, stability and prosperity.

Second, Asia-Pacific countries should strengthen cooperation to jointly discuss and establish a new inclusive and sustainable security architecture suitable for the region.

This structure is not to achieve the so-called "collective security" for some countries, but to pursue the common security of all countries.