France objects to NATO's proposed office in Japan.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno declined to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron's reported objection to a plan to open a NATO liaison office in Tokyo, only saying that "various considerations" are taking place inside the trans-Atlantic alliance. Macron has objected to what would be NATO's first office in Asia, reflecting France's reluctance to back anything that fuels tensions between the alliance and China. The resistance from France has complicated months of discussion within NATO over the opening of the outpost in Tokyo.