Hua Chunying posted a picture questioning, "Who is subverting the international order?" The NATO summit communique smeared the China summit | NATO | communique
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The NATO summit was held in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius from July 11th to 12th. The summit communiqu é declared that China's ambition and "coercive policies" challenge NATO's interests, security, and values, posing a "systemic challenge" to the security of the European Atlantic region. On the night of the 13th, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister and Spokesperson Hua Chunying posted a picture on social media Twitter, questioning "Who is subverting the international order?"
Regarding NATO's negative trends in China, Hua Chunying first said, "Does China have a coercive policy? Isn't NATO engaging in group politics and military actions around the world, threatening other countries with force, challenging global interests, security, and values?" "China is subverting the rule based international order. Isn't it NATO trampling on international law and basic norms of international relations, interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, launching wars, and causing suffering to hundreds of millions of people worldwide?"
Hua Chunying subsequently stated, "We have not forgotten the bloody debt owed to the Chinese people by NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. Asia Pacific countries do not welcome war machines, let alone the 'Asia Pacific version of NATO' that provokes group confrontation or a new Cold War.".
Hua Chunying also released a picture questioning "who is subverting the international order.". The picture features scenes of explosions in the Southern Alliance, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, as well as NATO symbols.
The NATO Vilnius Summit recently released a communiqu é, stating that China's ambition and "coercive policies" challenge NATO's interests, security, and values, posing a "systemic challenge" to the security of the Euro-Atlantic region. It also believes that China is committed to subverting the "rule-based international order". Recently, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg also wrote a similar article, stating that today in Europe may be tomorrow in Asia. In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin stated at a regular press conference on the 12th that the content of the NATO summit communique confuses right and wrong, distorts black and white, and is full of Cold War thinking and ideological bias. China firmly opposes this. The Cold War has been over for more than 30 years, but NATO, as a product of the Cold War, still holds a zero sum game and confrontational thinking, ignoring the call for peace, development, cooperation, and win-win in the international community. It moves against the trend, embarks on a reversal of history, is unpopular, and is destined to not succeed. Wang Wenbin also stated that we urge NATO to immediately stop distorting and smearing China, fabricating lies, abandoning outdated Cold War thinking and zero sum games, abandoning erroneous practices of superstition in military force and seeking absolute security, abandoning dangerous actions that disrupt Europe and the Asia Pacific region, and not finding excuses for its continued expansion. Instead, it should play a constructive role in world peace and stability.