I truly enjoy Wang Zhiyu’s great story telling of geopolitical issues with a sense of street humor and looking forward every morning to hear her. There is one thing to watch. Pro-American forces, in especially in Japan and Australia and the Philippines, are pushing NATO to insert and encroach into East Asia. This encroachment is seen in the making and converting and enlarging with new members of the US-led Quad into Asia’s NATO, perhaps called PacTO. How big and strong can this Asian NATO. For one thing, the SouthEast Asian countries, viz. ASEAN, except for the Philippines, will want to firmly maintain its neutrality, not to be aligned to the rivalry between China and the US, nor India and Japan or even Australia, but remain as friendly to the two principal rivals. Who then can there be counted on to make the Asian NATO. From the three corners of Asia, are the primaries: Japan in the northeast, Australia in the far south, and India in the west. Can Australia be counted as being in Asia? Since when has Australia fought like Asians against US and European encroachment? Australia has been inserted into Asia by Western colonial powers since end of WW2 and has always acted as US and UK proxy such as in Malaya in the 1950s, in Korea in the 1950s, in Vietnam in the 1960s, and now in the SCS. Secondarily, who else? SKorea, Singapore(?, not very likely) and how about Taiwan (that will be the last straw!). If Canada can be in NATO, and Australia in PacTO, why can’t Canada be also in PacTO? And why can’t the UK be also in PacTO. The UK had once upon in time had India, Malaya and Singapore, and Hong Kong, and Brunei in its empire, and has interests in these modern independent states. And there you are PacTO, an Asian NATO. Asians are well aware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing. So says Asian folks: where goes the Americans, there goes too the wolves and the dogs.
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Furthermore PacTO is aimed not just at China. It also takes aim at Asian involvement in the US-led Israeli war on the Palestinians and Arabs in the MidEast, i.e. West Asia. The grand designs, of the US Indo-PAC strategy.