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...