{"id":56565,"date":"2023-07-11T00:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/10\/asia-nato-china-military-expansion-beijing-how-to-engage"},"modified":"2023-07-11T00:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:17:50","slug":"why-asia-matters-to-nato-as-it-looks-to-respond-to-chinas-military-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56565","title":{"rendered":"Why Asia matters to Nato as it looks to respond to China\u2019s military expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is source of \u2018systemic challenges\u2019 but alliance members are divided on how to engage<\/p>\n<p>Nato leaders and their allies are heading to Vilnius, Lithuania, this week, for two days of meetings starting on Tuesday. Among them is Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea\u2019s president, who will give one of the opening speeches.<\/p>\n<p>The summit will be dominated by discussions about the alliance\u2019s relationship with Ukraine. But Yoon\u2019s attendance reflects a growing interest among members in stepping up their dialogue with countries in the Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/10\/asia-nato-china-military-expansion-beijing-how-to-engage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is source of \u2018systemic challenges\u2019 but alliance members are divided on how to engageNato leaders and their allies are heading to Vilnius, Lithuania, this week, for two days of meetings starting on Tuesday. Among them is Yoon Suk Yeol, South Kor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,470,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nato","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56565","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56566,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56565\/revisions\/56566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}