{"id":5474,"date":"2023-05-24T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2023-05-24T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:23:36","slug":"china-says-natos-plan-for-japan-office-not-welcomed-in-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/asia\/china-says-natos-plan-for-japan-office-not-welcomed-in-asia-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"China says NATO&#8217;s plan for Japan office not welcomed in Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEIJING, May 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The Asia-Pacific region does not welcome NATO&#8217;s plan to open a liaison office in Japan, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press briefing on Wednesday, after Japan acknowledged NATO&#8217;s plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want to say that the Asia-Pacific does not welcome group confrontation, does not welcome military confrontation,&#8221; Mao said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also said Japan should be &#8220;extra cautious on the issue of military security&#8221; given its &#8220;history of aggression&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida\u00a0said earlier\u00a0in the day the country had no plans to become a NATO member, even though the U.S.-led military pact was planning a Tokyo office, its first in Asia, to facilitate consultations in the region.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, May 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The Asia-Pacific region does not welcome NATO&#8217;s plan to open a liaison office in Japan, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press briefing on Wednesday, after Japan acknowledged NATO&#8217;s plan. &#8220;We want to say that the Asia-Pacific does not welcome group confrontation, does not welcome military confrontation,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}