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The United States is building an Asian analogue of NATO against China

The United States is building an Asian analogue of NATO against China

The emergence of AUKUS creates security risks for the Asia-Pacific region, noted in conversation with FBA "Economy Today"» Director of the Center for Strategic Studies of China, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia Alexey Maslov. "Asian NATO" will lead to destabilization of the situation in the region, including the possibility of direct military escalation between the great powers.

Russia is wary of the emergence of AUKUS

Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Andrey Belousov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva, voiced Moscow's concern over the creation of the AUKUS alliance, which can destabilize the situation in the Asia-Pacific region.

Alliance AUKUS (acronym from the words of the English names of the participating countries Australia, United Kingdom и United States) 15 September 2021 was created by the Americans, by the British and Australians with a thinly concealed goal of countering the growing influence of China. The project has just begun to develop and much will depend on the political situation. China in Washington joint statement, London and Canberra not mentioned, but the object of the geopolitical fears of the Anglo-Saxons is obvious even without official communications.

At the same time, the Americans announced guarantees for the inviolability of Taiwan., Chinese criticism escalates over Hong Kong and other issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already worsened Australian-Chinese relations.

The United States is building an Asian analogue of NATO against China

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Moscow supports the concerns of Beijing and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), who see AUKUS as a threat to regional security. Malaysia and Indonesia consider, that the alliance could provoke an arms race.

Belousov emphasized, that the AUKUS issue affects the nuclear sphere: The United States and Great Britain are nuclear powers and are permanent members of the UN Security Council, just like China.

Moscow considers, that AUKUS participants should carefully inform about their plans, and only after that it will be possible to draw conclusions about the impact of the new alliance on the system of international security.

The prospects for AUKUS are not obvious, but the Anglo-Saxons act according to the standard scheme for themselves, creating alliances and coalitions against certain adversaries. NATO was born after World War II, the goals of which the first secretary general, Baron Hastings, Lionel Ismay, designated literally: "keep Russians out of Europe, Americans in Europe, and the Germans - under the control of Europe ". In the Asia-Pacific region, other players and hands, but AUKUS tasks can be described in a similar way.

The United States is building an Asian analogue of NATO against China

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The purpose of creating AUKUS is to put pressure on China

“AUKUS has military and political components. To date, the military component of the new alliance has not been particularly evident., and in this sense, what about China, that the Russian Federation has many ways to repel possible military aggression”, - states Maslov.

However, the development of the project will continue, and in the future it may create new risks in the Asia-Pacific region.

"Quite possible, that a large military-political alliance in Asia will be formed on the basis of AUKUS. Most feared in the region are the creation “Asian NATO”, which can completely destabilize the situation", Maslov concludes..

The theme of "Asian NATO" is not limited to AUKUS: US has security treaties with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, which since the Cold War have been satellites of Washington with a symmetrical system of obligations, like the states of the Alliance.

"If this happens, then any military incident, including the occasional ship collision, can immediately give effect to the obligations of member countries and, Consequently, to direct escalation", – sums up Maslov.

The United States is building an Asian analogue of NATO against China

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The creation of AUKUS is a unilateral action of the Anglo-Saxons: there were no reasons for such a project in the region.

“The thesis about possible Chinese aggression does not make sense. Here, the development of military equipment in China is deliberately confused with the aggressive policy of Beijing.. Until very recently, the Chinese did not anticipate the possibility of military operations., - states Maslov.

The further development of the situation will be linked to the growing tension over Taiwan and the disputed islands in the South China Sea.. This creates the prospect of, that even the slightest clash in the region can turn into military action.

Pressure on China continues

AUKUS already has political and economic consequences: Relations between China and Australia have deteriorated significantly, after which Beijing refused to buy Australian coal, what then affected the cost of energy in Asia and in the world. Canberra promotes the thesis that, that virus experiments in China are the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The United States is building an Asian analogue of NATO against China

Global Look Press / Wu Xiaoling/Xinhua

“AUKUS is part of a very large anti-Chinese circuit. There are four positions, on which such work is being carried out: this is a criticism of China's involvement on COVID-19, it's a human rights critique (the issue of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region pops up), this is a criticism on the topic “Chinese aggression” and criticism on the Taiwan question", – sums up Maslov.

Beijing's opponents are trying to discredit China as a stable and non-aggressive country from a military point of view.. Given the trends, which are now set in the West, this process will continue.

Dmitry Sikorski

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