{"id":56627,"date":"2023-07-12T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/nato-appears-to-shelve-plans-open-japan-liaison-office-tokyo"},"modified":"2023-07-12T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:39:42","slug":"nato-appears-to-shelve-plans-to-open-japan-liaison-office-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56627","title":{"rendered":"Nato appears to shelve plans to open Japan liaison office in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress expected at Nato summit thanks to attendance of Japan\u2019s PM but no mention made in latest talks<\/p>\n<p>Nato appears to have shelved plans to open a liaison office in Tokyo, a proposal that had been discussed as part of the western military alliance\u2019s plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/10\/asia-nato-china-military-expansion-beijing-how-to-engage\">deepen cooperation<\/a> with partners in the Asia-Pacific but which was strongly opposed by China.<\/p>\n<p>The idea to open an office was first discussed after Nato\u2019s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, visited Japan earlier this year. It reportedly involved opening a civilian office in Tokyo in 2024, as a means of facilitating Nato\u2019s dialogues in the Asia-Pacific. It was expected progress would be made at the Nato summit thanks to the attendance of Fumio Kishida, Japan\u2019s prime minister, for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/nato-appears-to-shelve-plans-open-japan-liaison-office-tokyo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress expected at Nato summit thanks to attendance of Japan\u2019s PM but no mention made in latest talksNato appears to have shelved plans to open a liaison office in Tokyo, a proposal that had been discussed as part of the western military alliance\u2019s p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,88,470,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-nato","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\/56627","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56628,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56627\/revisions\/56628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}