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NATO Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges David van Weel: "The most important thing is that China realizes that they shouldn't take any unilateral steps to change the status quo of Taiwan." (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

AKIRA KITADO, Nikkei staff writer

November 13, 2023 21:05 JST

TOKYO -- NATO has no ambitions to become a regional military alliance in the Indo-Pacific region, but it will "strongly discourage China from taking any actions that will change the status quo of Taiwan as it is right now," the alliance's assistant secretary-general for emerging security challenges told Nikkei Asia in an interview on Monday.