North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Conflicts - Tensions
Indo-Pacific partners pledge NATO cooperation
FORUM Staff Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea joined NATO defense ministers meetings in mid-October 2024 and agreed to bolster cooperation against attempts to alter the status quo through force or coercion. The ministers met in Brussels, Belgium, amid growing belligerence by the People’s Republic of China in the South China Sea and elsewhere, and Russia’s unprovoked war against…
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Free and Open Indo-Pacific/FOIP
South Korea enhances regional security role
FORUM Staff Seoul is reinforcing security partnerships in the Indo-Pacific and beyond as tensions flare in the economically important South China Sea and North Korea’s nuclear and missile provocations persist. South Korea upgraded ties with the Philippines and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in October 2024. Singapore and Seoul signed agreements on supply chain and liquefied natural gas…
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Northeast Asia
Japan, NATO discussing hotline for sharing security information
FORUM Staff The expanding cooperation between Japan and NATO is continuing with negotiations to establish a hotline for rapidly sharing security information on such threats as cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns, including from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia. The communication tool could be modeled on the system used by the 31-nation security alliance, which can be used to…
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