NATO Summit May Lead To Increased Global Role For NATO

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has provided a press gaggle aboard Air Force One en-route to the NATO summit in Madrid.

• Sullivan says that NATO members will unveil their first new NATO strategic concept since 2010.
• Sullivan says the new strategic concept will revoke Russia's status as a "strategic partner" and "it will speak very directly ... to the multi-faceted challenge posed by the People's Republic of China."
• Sullivan also highlights the significant increase in NATO funding by members and makes specific reference to the increase of Germany's defence budget.
• Sullivan says that NATO will "follow through" on commitments to increase force posture in Europe. Announcements on long-term commitments will come tomorrow. Sullivan says the announcements will detail a "more combat credible and capable" NATO military force in Europe.
• The NATO summit will be one of the most significant geopolitical events of the year. Of particular note is the attendance of non-NATO but Western-aligned states - Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.
• The summit may point toward a new global security architecture in which NATO plays an expanded, supra-regional role. This is of especial relevance to the prominence of China in the new NATO strategic concept - a country which historically existed beyond the security remit of NATO.
• Sullivan says that the inclusion of Asia-Pacific partners at the summit "doesn't mean NATO will go fighting wars in the Pacific," but "there is an interconnection between Asia-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic alliances."
• Sullivan also highlights the significance of a trilateral meeting between President Biden, Prime Minister Kishida or Japan, and President Yoon of South Korea which will take place tomorrow.