A NATO for the Indo-Pacific, Chinese Maritime Aggression, and Miles in Taipei
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With the NATO Summit happening in Washington D.C. this week, Miles details why multilateral engagement in Asia through NATO expansion, or the establishment of a NATO-like alliance, would be such an effective bulwark against the Chinese Communist Party. Secondly, we cover some of China's latest acts of maritime aggression against Taiwan and the Philippines, and Miles hosts the second installment of Hudson's conference on the 2005 Anti-cessation law.
- Welcome to China Insider, a podcast from the Hudson Institute's China Center. I'm Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center. Join me each week for our analysis of the major events concerning China, China threat, and their implications to the U.S. and beyond. (upbeat music) - I'm Phil Higgsoth, and it's Tuesday, July 9th, and we've got three topics for Miles. The first is actually about my personal commute, which has become a nightmare this week thanks to the NATO summit being held in Washington, D.C., starting today. Miles tells us what he's got his eye on during the meeting and why an Indo-Pacific-focused NATO-type alliance should be at the forefront of people's minds. Our second topic actually illustrates why an alliance structure in the Indo-Pacific would be so valuable. As China demonstrated, it's aggressive maritime practices by seizing a Taiwanese fishing vessel and initiating a direct physical confrontation with the Filipino Armed Forces that saw a Chinese boat ram a Filipino boat, which even resulted in an official U.S. offer for assistance, which was denied by Manila. Finally, Miles' sound quality is less than ideal this week as he's calling in from Taipei, where he's meeting with Taiwanese officials for the second installment of Hudson's anti-sossession law conference. (upbeat music) All right, Miles, let's get started. How are you? - Good to see you, Phil. - We'll jump right in. So for our first topic, we're gonna discuss traffic, actually, more specifically of mine and what's usually your commute into the city this week. It's gonna be a nightmare 'cause D.C. is hosting the NATO summit downtown this week. Now, NATO has been at the center of the Western World's Defense Strategy for 75 years now, countering communist and fascist threats alike. However, in today's world, the greatest threat to democratic and Western societies comes again from communism, but this time not on NATO's borders. Obviously, we're alluding to China here, and Miles, you sent me a piece that you wrote in the summer of 2022 about NATO, but with a different acronym, it was NAPTO.
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