{"id":55807,"date":"2023-06-07T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T03:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/07\/france-opposed-to-opening-of-nato-liaison-office-in-japan-official-says"},"modified":"2023-06-07T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T03:12:48","slug":"france-opposed-to-opening-of-nato-liaison-office-in-japan-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55807","title":{"rendered":"France opposed to opening of Nato liaison office in Japan, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nato statutes \u2018clearly limit the scope to North Atlantic\u2019, official says, with reports that president Macron personally objects to the idea<\/p>\n<p>France is unenthusiastic about a proposal for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/03\/nato-planning-to-open-japan-office-to-deepen-asia-pacific-ties-report\">Nato to open a liaison office in Japan<\/a>, an official has said, days after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said the move would be a \u201cbig mistake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There have been suggestions, alluded to most recently by the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, that the organisation would open an office in Tokyo \u2013 its first in Asia \u2013 in response to the growing challenge posed by China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/07\/france-opposed-to-opening-of-nato-liaison-office-in-japan-official-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nato statutes \u2018clearly limit the scope to North Atlantic\u2019, official says, with reports that president Macron personally objects to the ideaFrance is unenthusiastic about a proposal for Nato to open a liaison office in Japan, an official has said, days &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[526,88,470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-japan","category-nato"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55808,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55807\/revisions\/55808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}