A NATO office in Japan would only bring trouble

Formalized presence would only raise tensions with China and Russia

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin in June: Rather than extend its confrontation with Russia to a new region, the West should strike a balance with revisionist states. © Reuters

Mangantar Simon Hutagalung serves in the Indonesian foreign ministry. The views expressed in this article are his own and do not represent those of the ministry.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, along with his counterparts from South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, is set to attend next month's NATO leaders' summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, the second straight year he and his counterparts will take part in the gathering.

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