Eastern Europe and East Asia forge closer ties as Russia, China threaten

How lessons from the Ukraine war are influencing the EU's Indo-Pacific strategy

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European foreign ministers attend a meeting in on Dec. 12, 2024. © Reuters

Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski is Poland's deputy foreign minister.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, brought the European Union and Poland closer to like-minded states in Asia, including Japan. We realized that despite different histories and cultures we share the same values regarding international politics, namely the adherence to the international law-based order established in 1945.

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