Already, Japan has joined NATO's cyber centre of excellence, based in Tallinn in Estonia. Australia's defence minister will attend the meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels next week—the first participation in a general meeting of this type, unrelated to discussion of a specific mission, such as the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
It is still early days for NATO's thinking on the challenge of China's growing power. But one idea will guide its emerging strategy: that the alliance itself offers a key advantage. Even though China's GDP may before long outweigh America's, the alliance has nearly a billion people and half the world's military and economic might. One of Joe Biden's main foreign-policy advisers, Tony Blinken, last month stressed the importance of working with other democracies in Asia and Europe. On its own, he said, America is about 25% of the world economy; "when China is engaged in practices that are unfair, and we want them to change, it's a lot harder for them to ignore 60% of the world's GDP than it is to ignore a quarter of it." Mr Trump may be unimpressed by that argument, but his potential successor clearly sets a lot of store by it. https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/08/nato-sets-its-sights-on-china
It is still early days for NATO's thinking on the challenge of China's growing power. But one idea will guide its emerging strategy: that the alliance itself offers a key advantage. Even though China's GDP may before long outweigh America's, the alliance has nearly a billion people and half the world's military and economic might. One of Joe Biden's main foreign-policy advisers, Tony Blinken, last month stressed the importance of working with other democracies in Asia and Europe. On its own, he said, America is about 25% of the world economy; "when China is engaged in practices that are unfair, and we want them to change, it's a lot harder for them to ignore 60% of the world's GDP than it is to ignore a quarter of it." Mr Trump may be unimpressed by that argument, but his potential successor clearly sets a lot of store by it. https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/08/nato-sets-its-sights-on-china