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Is an 'Asian NATO' forming across the Indo-Pacific?

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With NATO’s deepening of ties with Asia-Pacific partners, we ask whether the alliance’s expansion into Asia or the formation of the once far-fetched idea of an Asian NATO could be on the cards. Our guests are: Guermantes Lailari - Retired U.S. Air Force foreign area officer specializing in irregular warfare and missile defense Lucio III Pitlo - Research fellow, Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation and Taiwan fellow at National Chengchi University James Crabtree - Executive director, Institute of International Strategic Studies And from Washington, D.C.: Ivan Kanapathy - Member of the Council on Foreign Relations U.S.-Taiwan Relations Task Force - Vice president, Beacon Global Strategies - Senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Freeman Chair in China Studies - Former U.S. National Security Council director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia, and deputy senior director for Asian affairs