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The inexorable drift towards an Asian Nato
The Quad, Aukus and an array of other arrangements suggest that the pieces are falling into place for such an eventuality.
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(From left) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 24, 2022.
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At their London meeting in December 2019, Nato leaders asked Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to initiate forward-looking plans to make the world's premier security grouping stronger and fit for future purposes.
Over the next year, the long-serving Norwegian consulted widely and last June, at the summit in Brussels, Nato endorsed his plan, called the Nato 2030 agenda.
