From Xinhua:  NATO would not seek to become a global security organization and its focus will remain in the traditional Euro-Atlantic region, NATO Parliamentary Assembly President Hugh Barley (sic) said on Friday.

Please join the Atlantic Council on May 15 for a panel discussion on growing nationalism in northeast Asia and the implications of this trend for the integration of the region and the notion of an Asia-Pacific community.

From Jeff Lightfoot, New Atlanticist:  France’s new White Book on defense and national security offers no radical thinking on the future posture and structure of France’s military and national security establishment

From David E. Sanger, New York Times:  The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”

From Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Policy:  Of course the relationship between such big countries can never be cloudless. And we have some things which still divide us. Missile defense is one case in point.

From NATO:  NATO Foreign Ministers condemn in the strongest possible terms the continued development by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes, and its recent inflammatory and threatening rhetoric.

From Department of State:  Excerpt from remarks by European Commission President Manuel Barroso with Secretary of State John Kerry at meeting with European Commission Fellows.

From Richard Weitz, World Policy Review:  NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently undertook a week-long visit to Japan and South Korea, highlighting NATO's growing role in Asian security in partnership with nonmember governments.

From Xinhua:  The global trends toward economic globalization and multi-polarity are intensifying, cultural diversity is increasing, and an information society is fast emerging.