{"id":2658,"date":"2026-07-08T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/2658\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:21:08","slug":"nato-indo-pacific-4-pledge-defence-tech-boost-as-deeper-china-russia-ties-spark-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/2658\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato, Indo-Pacific 4 pledge defence, tech boost as deeper China-Russia ties spark alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nato and its Indo-Pacific partners have pledged to expand cooperation in defence industry and advanced technology as the transatlantic security alliance <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3359775\/nato-launches-defence-projects-counter-russia-and-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">boosts its military build-up<\/a> in the face of deepening Russia-China ties.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Secretary General Mark Rutte on Tuesday met with top officials from the Indo-Pacific Four (IP4) partner nations \u2013 Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea \u2013 on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The talks featured South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, New Zealand Defence Minister Chris Penk and the Australian defence industry minister, Pat Conroy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lee is the only IP4 state leader attending the two-day summit, which closes today.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to the Japanese foreign ministry, Rutte and the IP4 leaders shared \u201ccandid\u201d views on the international situation, including Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine, the situation in the Indo-Pacific such as issues related to China, their policies towards North Korea and the situation in Iran. They agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas such as the defence industry, cyberspace and technology, it said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nato intended to strengthen its relations with the IP4 to \u201cappropriately address various challenges facing the international community\u201d, Rutte was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nato and its Indo-Pacific partners have pledged to expand cooperation in defence industry and advanced technology as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[913,191,407,14,1799,1167,139,24,243,1798,1745,273,1190,26,520,1626],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ankara","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-defence-industry","tag-euro-atlantic","tag-indo-pacific","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-nato","tag-new-zealand","tag-north-korea","tag-russia","tag-south-korea","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/defence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}