Could an 'Asian NATO' Form in the Indo-Pacific? | Taiwan Talks EP158

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With NATO’s deepening of ties with Asia-Pacific partners, we ask whether the alliance’s expansion into Asia or the formation of the once far-fetched idea of an Asian NATO could be on the cards.

00:00 Introduction
00:54 All for 1 and 1 for all
01:24 China challenge to NATO
02:04 Stoltenberg: 'Deep interconnections'
02:42 Is NATO expanding in to Asia?
06:10 Macron objects to Japan office
14:06 Brad Bowman: U.S. waking up
17:44 China Defense Minister: 'Imagined threats'
27:42 Bowman: Intelligence, reconnaissance threatens China
34:55 Council on Foreign Relations Report: U.S.-Taiwan Relations
35:20 Ivan Kanapathy Interview: Focus on Deliverables

Our guests are:

Guermantes Lailari
- Retired U.S. Air Force foreign area officer specializing in irregular warfare and missile defense

Lucio III Pitlo
- Research fellow, Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation and Taiwan fellow at National Chengchi University

James Crabtree
- Executive director, Institute of International Strategic Studies

And from Washington, D.C.:

Ivan Kanapathy
- Member of the Council on Foreign Relations U.S.-Taiwan Relations Task Force
- Vice president, Beacon Global Strategies
- Senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Freeman Chair in China Studies
- Former U.S. National Security Council director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, and deputy senior director for Asian affairs

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