🇺🇸🇨🇳 NATO seeks to expand partnerships with Indo-Pacific states, US official says

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans to expand its pool of partners from the strategically vital Indo-Pacific region, a senior US official suggested while previewing the alliance’s 75th anniversary summit this week in Washington.

“Certainly there are more partners that we have in the Indo-Pacific that are of great value to the NATO alliance. And we will seek to include other partners and other events in the future,” said Michael Carpenter, senior director for Europe at the National Security Council, calling Nato’s Indo-Pacific partners “incredibly important”.

Beijing issued a stern warning just as leaders and senior officials from the now 32-member alliance gather in Washington for three days of meetings, from Tuesday through Thursday, saying that NATO’s “breaching its boundary” was the “real source of risks threatening global peace and stability”.

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