China accuses the US, UK and Australia of trying to build an Asia-Pacific NATO

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  1. Get the US, UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and possibly Canada on the same side along with ASEAN and you’ve got it.

  2. Well of course we are. Have you noticed how aggressive the two most powerful totalitarian countries in the world have been lately? We would be fools to not protect ourselves with the strength of unity.

  3. There already was SEATO.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization

    >The **Southeast Asia Treaty Organization** (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, the Philippines. The formal

    >Then-Vice President Richard Nixon advocated an Asian equivalent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) upon returning from his Asia trip of late 1953, and NATO was the model for the new organization, with the military forces of each member intended to be coordinated to provide for the collective defense of the member states.

    I don’t know what the “accusation” is here. I think that we’ve been pretty open about building collective defense organizations.

  4. It’s just Monroe doctrine.

    TL DR – “no country can become number 1 in Euro-Asia, because that’s instant game over”.

    The Anglo-Saxons will do whatever it take to take down rising empires. This is why US got involved in taking down Hitler. This is why USSR had to collapse. And yes, this is why China is on this list too.

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