Beijing's ‘Asian NATO’ Maxim is Structural

Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Jagannath Panda's piece on ‘Beijing's ‘Asian NATO’ Maxim is Structural’ has been published as the PacNet Commentary at the Pacific Forum in Honolulu on November 22, 2019.

The piece argues that for Beijing, the arrival of the Quad 2.0 is a strategic challenge to China’s vision of regional architecture. Considering the challenges that the Quad process poses to China, Beijing’s perception is neither completely reactionary nor entirely military centric.