China report warns against European-led Nato 3.0 expansion in the Asia-Pacific

The alliance’s expanding military cooperation in the region will leave the bloc ‘increasingly at odds’ with multipolar world order The report follows the transatlantic security alliance’s summit in Ankara last week where the Nato 3.0 concept was formally embraced as its latest strategic direction. The term broadly refers to a structural overhaul that shifts greater responsibility for conventional defence on to Europe, while the United States recalibrates its global commitments. According to the CICIR, this marks a new phase in Nato’s evolution: from Cold War-era territorial defence against the Soviet Union, through out-of-area interventions and crisis management, to a Europe-led model centred on home defence and deterrence. The shift is being driven in large part by the Trump administration’s renewed emphasis on burden-sharing.

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