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NATO allies worry that the growing threat China poses may distract the US from Europe. A seapower expert argues the forces needed in Europe are different than in the Asia-Pacific. A confrontation ...
China claims that it takes a neutral position on the conflict, blaming the U.S. and NATO for provoking the invasion by ignoring Russia’s concerns about the alliance’s expansion.
Many of America's NATO allies would be hard-pressed to defend themselves, and one another, against a determined Russian assault, let alone project power in Asia.
In the third year of the war in Ukraine, NATO is set to deepen relations with its four Indo-Pacific partners, which, although not part of the military alliance, are gaining prominence as Russia ...
NATO countries called on China to make sure its companies do not provide lethal assistance to Russia. [86] This demand was also stressed by a representative of the European Union. [87] In April 2024, the United States and the United Kingdom announced a ban on imports of Russian aluminum, copper, and nickel. [88]
A variety of stories lead the papers. The Financial Times reports that European members of Nato are holding talks about increasing the alliance's spending target to 3% of GDP, up from the current ...
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
The primary demand from Russia to halt NATO's eastward expansion was rejected by NATO and the U.S., which argued that Russia should not have a veto on the alliance's expansion and that it had the right to decide its own military posture, defending its open door policy as a fundamental principle of the organization. [17]