[Global NK Newsletter] U.S.-China Strategic Competition and NATO’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
2022-09-05
August 8, 2022
[Global NK Interview] Ramon
Pacheco Pardo: NATO’s Indo-Pacific Strategy and the Implication of the New
Strategic Concept
In this interview, Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Professor of
International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at
the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, provides
insight into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) new Strategic
Concept that defined China as a “systemic challenge.” Pacheco Pardo highlights
three reasons for China’s entry into European policy discussion over the last
five years: future conflict risks due to China’s rapid rise, increased push
from the U.S. for NATO to handle China, and China’s failure to condemn the
Russian invasion of Ukraine. Looking forward, Dr. Pacheco Pardo predicts that,
despite hoping to maintain a relationship with China, Europe’s longstanding
ties and ideological similarity with the U.S. would cause it to side with the
U.S. in the event of a U.S.-China confrontation.
