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Chinese Expert Says NATO's Asia-Pacific Expansion Cannot Halt Alliance's Decline
Liaoning University analyst says NATO 'Asia-Pacificization' is not a cure for decline, argues alliance should be dissolved
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- A Chinese international relations expert from Liaoning University argues that NATO is destined to decline and its attempts to expand influence to the Asia-Pacific region will not save the alliance.
- Lu Chao, dean of the American and East Asian Studies Institute, says NATO is a Cold War product whose purpose disappeared with the Soviet Union's dissolution.
- He contends that US and Israeli strikes on Iran have widened rifts within the military bloc, prompting the alliance to push 'Asia-Pacificization' to ease transatlantic frictions, but this strategy is unlikely to work.
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A Chinese international relations expert from Liaoning University argues that NATO is destined to decline and its attempts to expand influence to the Asia-Pacific region will not save the alliance. Lu Chao, dean of the American and East Asian Studies Institute, says NATO is a Cold War product whose purpose disappeared with the Soviet Union's dissolution. He contends that US and Israeli strikes on Iran have widened rifts within the military bloc, prompting the alliance to push 'Asia-Pacificization' to ease transatlantic frictions, but this strategy is unlikely to work.
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