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How could Taiwan - a country not in the North Atlantic - join NATO?
by IanDrake 5y ago
How could Taiwan - a country not in the North Atlantic - join NATO?
- umvi 5y agoPresumably by agreeing to the terms of the treaty and by being accepted by existing members. It's the North Atlantic Treaty organization, not the North Atlantic Organization
- rufus_foreman 5y agoGood point. When I think of Turkey, the first thing that comes to my mind is "North Atlantic", same as you apparently.
- vkou 5y agoThe Mediterranean is technically part of the North Atlantic. If Greece can be in NATO, why not Turkey? But no, most of Europe isn't interested in spilling blood over Taiwan, just like it isn't interested in spilling blood over Ukraine.
- jacquesm 5y agoIt probably isn't so much the spilling of blood that it isn't interested in rather than the chances of wholesale evaporation but otherwise your point stands.
- colinmhayes 5y ago> The Mediterranean is technically part of the North Atlantic. I'm not sure this is true. What actually happened is that NATO countries realized expanding NATO is in their interest so they ignored the "north atlantic" part of the treaty. While I doubt taiwan will be invited any time soon it wouldn't surprise me at all if Japan or even South Korea is.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoTurkey is explicitly in the geographic area covered by NATO, though (I would assume North Atlantic, North America, Mediterranean, Europe, Turkey and Algerian Departments of France Treaty Organization or NANAMETADFTO was considered too long of a name). Taiwan is thousands of miles outside of it.
- Tabular-Iceberg 5y agoEven worse, it would have had to be NANAMETADFTO OTFDATEMANAN to keep the French happy.