The Impacts of NATO's"Pivot to the Asia-Pacific"on the ASEAN Centrality
In recent years,the development of"Global NATO"has instrumentalized NATO and promoted its pivot to the Asia-Pacific region,showing distinctive characteristics of focusing on the"China Challenge"to serve the U.S.'s strate-gic transformation,uniting key alliances in the Asia-Pacific to increase regional tensions,and strictly adhering to the"Eu-rope First and Asia Second"principle to limit NATO's strategic transformation.The NATO's pivot to the Asia-Pacific region has spread the group's political ideology,intensified regional power confrontation,and increased the complexity of regional hot issues,thereby threatening ASEAN's open regionalism,the effectiveness of its external coordination mechanism,and its agenda-setting space,which finally damaged the conceptual and institutional foundations for the ASEAN centrality,making ASEAN adhere to the"neutral and balancing"stance,promote deeper economic cooperation,and strengthen national de-fense and military coordination to maintain its leading role in regional affairs.Looking into the future,China could fully grasp the logic of NATO's pivot to the Asia-Pacific region and its impacts on ASEAN,strengthen mutual trust and coopera-tion with ASEAN,support the ASEAN centrality in regional affairs,and maintain communication with NATO and its mem-ber states,thus contribute to the stability of regional and international security order.
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