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France opposed to opening of Nato liaison office in Japan, official says (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Ninmi@sopuli.xyz to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] animist@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess I should probably start actually reading the articles then

[–] hanabatake@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

“Nato [stands for] north Atlantic, and both article V and article VI [in its statutes] clearly limit the scope to north Atlantic,” a French official, who asked not to be named, said on Tuesday.

Actually, it is what they said

Despite calls for Nato to work more closely with allies in north-east Asia, France is apparently reluctant to support anything that fuels tensions between the alliance and China.

Of course, it is because France does not want a conflict with China