TEHRAN, June 15 (Xinhua) — Iran’s English language newspaper Tehran Times has slammed the U.S. thought of increasing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to the Asia-Pacific area, saying it’s doomed to failure because it lacks regional backing.
The paper on Wednesday printed an article entitled “Asian NATO: U.S. paranoia and fragility,” highlighting a extensively reported plan by the U.S.-led army alliance NATO to broaden to the Asia-Pacific area.
Quoting a Japanese newspaper report, the article stated that NATO seeks to ascertain a liaison workplace within the Japanese capital of Tokyo in 2024 to make use of it as a middle to cooperate with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, all of that are geographically near China.
Intimidated by China’s emergence as a superpower, the U.S. goals to include China primarily based on the “paranoiac” assumption that Beijing seeks to “compete with or challenge” it on a world scale though China does not have such an intention, it stated.
However, the U.S. plan to create a duplicate of the NATO within the Asia-Pacific area is doomed to failure, as “it has consequences and at the same time lacks backing from many regional Asian countries” and even NATO allies, reminiscent of France, the article added.
In the previous, the article stated, the U.S. try to create a duplicate of NATO within the Middle East had failed as a result of the regional international locations quickly realized that it will carry instability to the area and determined to make sure their safety by working collectively.
It warned that, because the U.S. hegemony diminishes, Washington “is playing dangerous games around the world” by means of searching for to impress conflicts elsewhere as an alternative of pursuing diplomatic paths.
The article concluded that nobody will profit from a NATO-like army alliance in Asia aside from the U.S., which is accustomed to reaping financial dividends from crises in numerous components of the world.