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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the ASEAN Regional Forum, Vientiane, Laos, July 2024. Chalinee Thirasupa / Reuters

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The United States has recently been touting its “convergence” with Asian partners. At the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin titled his remarks the “New Convergence in the Indo-Pacific”.At the Brookings Institution the following month, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken maintained that the United States enjoys “much greater convergence” with key Asian partners, citing improved ties with Japan and South Korea and the strengthening security links between NATO and the Indo-Pacific. And, also in July, at the Aspen Security Forum, Blinken reiterated that he had “not seen a time when there’s been greater convergence between the United States and our European partners and our partners in Asia in terms of the approach to Russia, but also in terms of the approach to China”.…  Seguir leyendo »

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (left), NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (second from left), and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (right) arrive for a meeting with NATO's Indo-Pacific partners during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12. Jacques Witt/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

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The recent NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, was watched closely for the outcome of Sweden’s bid for membership—Turkey agreed on the eve of the summit to ask its parliament to approve Sweden’s membership—and the alliance’s response to Ukraine’s formal application to join—NATO maintained that Ukraine would become a member “when allies agree and conditions are met” without setting out a time frame for the country’s entry after the war. In Asia, another aspect of the meeting was scrutinized: how NATO positioned itself on China.

There were three developments ahead of and in Vilnius on this front. First, as with the NATO summit held in Madrid in 2022, NATO extended invitations to four Indo-Pacific countries: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.…  Seguir leyendo »