While Russia’s war against Ukraine has dominated discussions at the NATO summit, China has earned a place among the most troubling security concerns of the Western alliance. “We are now facing an era of strategic competition. China is substantially strengthening its forces, including nuclear weapons, by intimidating its neighbors, including Taiwan,” Stoltenberg said. “China is not our opponent, but we need to be clear about the serious challenges it faces.” The latest plan of the alliance – or strategic idea – was agreed in 2010 and did not mention China. The news says that China’s policies challenge NATO’s interests, security and values, although Russia remains the most important and immediate threat to security. “The PRC [People’s Republic of China] “malicious hybrid and cyber-operations and its conflicting rhetoric and misinformation target allies and undermine the security of the alliance,” he said, noting the deepening partnership with Russia in including space, cyberspace. and maritime sectors “. NATO has warned that the Chinese government is “rapidly expanding” its nuclear capabilities without increasing transparency or a commitment to arms control and is using economic leverage to “create strategic dependencies and strengthen its influence”. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has accused Beijing of undermining the rule-based order “in which we believe, in which we helped build.” “If China challenges it in one way or another, we will deal with it,” he said. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who attended his first NATO summit in Madrid, has warned that strained relations between Beijing and Moscow pose a threat to all democracies. “As Russia seeks to rebuild a Russian or Soviet empire, the Chinese government is seeking friends, either through financial support, to form alliances to undermine what has historically been the Western alliance in places like the Indo-Pacific,” he told the summit. on Wednesday. Albanese said Australia had been “economically coerced” by China and urged democratic leaders to seek to diversify trade. Australia, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand were invited to the Madrid summit to focus more on the Indo-Pacific region. Albanese’s goal was to make the region the second theater of strategic competition with NATO members involved in Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Addressing the first NATO summit, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned of a “more assertive” China, but urged more diplomatic commitment. New Zealand has recently sharpened its stance amid Beijing’s growing presence in the South Pacific, in part due to the signing of a security pact between China and the Solomon Islands. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian responded by saying that NATO should stop “trying to start a new Cold War”. “Stop trying to confuse Asia and the world after confusing Europe,” he said. “All they have to do is give up their Cold War mentality, zero-sum games and stop doing things that create enemies.” The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, said that the invasion of Ukraine has shaken the foundations of the rule-based order. “Europe’s security and the security of the Indo-Pacific cannot be disconnected,” he said in his opening remarks. On the way to the summit, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Russian invasion of Ukraine showed the need for extra vigilance and caution about possible Chinese action against Taiwan. “I just think it is very important that countries around the world can not read the facts in Europe and come to the conclusion that the world will just be inactive if the borders are changed by force,” he said. “This is one of the most important lessons we are learning from Ukraine.” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was clearer, calling for faster action to help Taiwan with defense weapons, a key requirement for Ukraine from the invasion. “There is always a tendency – and we have seen it before the war in Ukraine – there is always a tendency of pious desires, to hope that no more bad things will happen and to wait until it is too late,” Trash told the United States. Kingdom. Committee on Cases. “We should have done things earlier, we should have procured defense weapons in Ukraine earlier. We need to learn this lesson about Taiwan. “Every piece of equipment we send requires months of training, so the faster we do it, the better.” With Reuters and AAP
