Why China is Terrified of Asian NATO

Let's have Asian countries join NATO. We can then rename NATO to Pacific Ocean Trans Atlantic Treaty Organization, or POTATO for short

Let's all further help the Chinese out by reducing any Made-in-China purchases whenever humanly possible.

China: I can do what I want. but not you other countries, that's bad 🤦‍♂️

India would be the Turkey of a Pacific NATO

Taiwan: another thing that seems so good but we just can't join

In the '60s we tried SEATO, but except for Japan and Taiwan, all potential members were as nasty as the enemys.

Chinese wumao will hate this real facts 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

this is literally the textbook definition of the meme: asia: can we have a similiar organization like nato? china: we have nato at home.

No idea how China thinks it can claim the entire south china sea right down to Riau Islands. Have they looked at a map? Their country is nowhere near it. Riau Islands are like 2000km away from their land, that's almost the entire length of their huge country away from them. Pure Greed

Pacific Asian Navel Defense Alliance aka. P.A.N.D.A

If I remember correctly there was a SEATO before

From a China supporter's perspective, this must be like a bad dream that just keeps getting worse and worse. Of all the World Powers, they've got by far the worst deck to deal with. - Poor quality military with little training or experience. Quality of new equipment is completely unknown and questionable but often seen as "tofu dreg" by outside commentators (not a good sign). - Surrounded on all sides by equally-capable neighbours and rivals all with disputes with China (especialy places like India regarding Himalayan rivers). - Practically zero reliable allies, all allies are purely out of necessity and convenience and very likely would turn on China at any point in the near future. Their most powerful ally (Russia) has been now exposed as a paper tiger/ paper bear. - Heavily polluted and resource depleted nation that has destroyed their environment in the name of money and power. - Geography makes it a nightmare to advance outwards for conquering. Various locations like near the South China Sea allow an outsider to completely strangle their economy. - The most powerful and battle-harderned nation on Earth with very powerful and reliable allies actively sailing in and around "their waters" providing an active deterrant and a promise that if China makes pushes too hard, it would be extremely painful for them. Now talks of another Anti-China alliance in their back yard. - A very, very vulnerable "Three Gorges Dam" which, if destroyed, could decimate large parts of China and kill an estimated 15 million plus citizens. This on top of some very bad weather events recently like heavy flooding which is already giving the citizens a hard time. It's going to be a nightmare for them.

It sounds like a good idea. Initial members would probably be Japan, South Korea, Philippines and Australia, with countries like New Zealand and Brunei coming along shortly thereafter, and some on the Pacific Island states. India may join depending upon how China continues to act along its borders. A separate question would be if it would be associated with NATO or would it be a separate entity. If the United States and Canada get involved, you would have overlapping commitments. This would raise the question as to whether there should be a formal alliance with NATO, changing its mandate. You could wind up with it becoming "The Brussels Pact", or some other amorphous title not necessarily associated with a single region.

Closest I could see form a NATO-like alliance in the Pacific are the nations with an already existing Mutual Defense treaty or a significant Defense Alliance with the US. Maybe US, the Philippines, and Japan. We could probably consider Australia, New Zealand, South Korea or Taiwan. But South Korea's problem with North Korea is a bit precarious. Same with Taiwan's similar nine-dash line claim.

Umm, when you say India doesn’t want to cause issues with their other neighbours like China … China is damming vital Indian water sources (similar to what they did to Cambodia) and the countless conflicts between India and China over their decades long Kashmir border dispute the final point I know about is the Chinese holdings on Sri Lanka through the belt and road initiative.

Back in early 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, I predicted an eventual "League of Free Nations" as it were, for want of any better thought out name. I believe ALL nations which qualify, by means of being a free, liberal democracy, should unite to combat the opposite bloc -- namely China, N.Korea, Iran, Belarus and Russia primarily. This free league of nations could unite NATO with all the significant Pacific-oriented nations -- Australia, NZ, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, S. Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, India and the small island nations such as Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. I see it as an inevitable outcome of the world dividing into the Free nations and the Fascist nations. And it would be incredibly powerful. With Article 5 applying to all, I don't foresee China or Russia attacking any of these countries.

Why is it, that these autocracies often have some very central strategic security concern and then take actions, that provoke the exact kind of response, they were so afraid of in the first place? Why are they so bad at anticipating the consequences of their actions?

0:23 the most hypocritical statement I've ever heard lmao.

Philippines already defeated China in the Battle of Yultong in Korea Philippine soldiers are real deal bad ass...

It should be called North Pacific Treaty Organisation.