China report warns against European-led Nato 3.0 expansion in the Asia-Pacific

The transition of the North Atlantic military alliance to a more Europe-led “Nato 3.0” will fail to heal deep-seated strategic rifts between Washington and the European capitals, according to a leading Chinese think tank.In a report published on Monday, the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) also warned that Nato’s expanding military and defence cooperation with Asia-Pacific nations such as Japan would leave the bloc “increasingly at odds with an accelerating multipolar world order”.The report follows the transatlantic security alliance’s summit in Ankara last week where the Nato 3.0 concept was formally embraced as its latest strategic direction.What is Nato 3.0?The term broadly refers to a structural overhaul that shifts greater responsibility for conventional defence on to Europe, while the United States recalibrates its global commitments.