Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Urge NATO to abandon dangerous actions that disrupt Europe and the Asia Pacific region with nuclear weapons | NATO | Europe
On July 12, Xinhua News Agency in Beijing conducted an electroacupuncture on the content related to China in the NATO Vilnius Summit Communique. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded to questions at a regular press conference on July 12, urging NATO to immediately stop distorting, smearing, and fabricating lies against China, abandon dangerous actions that disrupt Europe and the Asia Pacific, and not find excuses for its continued expansion.
"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, which China firmly opposes." Wang Wenbin said that after more than 30 years of the Cold War, NATO, as a product of the Cold War, still holds a zero sum game and confrontational thinking, disregards the call of the international community for peace, development, cooperation, and win-win, moves against the trend, reverses history, is unpopular, and is destined to not succeed.
Wang Wenbin said that NATO claims to be a regional organization, but it has broken through the geographical scope stipulated in its own treaty and accelerated its eastward expansion into the Asia Pacific region. NATO claims to be a defensive alliance, but encourages its member states to continuously increase military spending, expand their power beyond borders, and provoke confrontation in the Asia Pacific region. NATO claims to defend a "rule-based international order", but disregards international law and basic norms of international relations, interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, gets involved in multiple wars, sells security anxiety, fears that the world will not be chaotic, and is obsessed with "small circles" and group politics, strengthening ideological confrontation and camp confrontation.
He stated that China is a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a maintainer of international order, and a provider of public goods. China firmly upholds the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. "In terms of peace and security issues, China is the country with the best record. We have never invaded other countries, never engaged in proxy wars, never carried out military actions globally, never threatened other countries with force, never exported ideology, and never interfered in the internal affairs of other countries. We do not form or participate in military groups, oppose the use of force or the threat of force in international relations. Why does China pose a 'systemic challenge' to NATO?"
Wang Wenbin said that maintaining long-term prosperity and stability in the Asia Pacific region relies on mutual respect, open cooperation, mutual benefit, and appropriate resolution of differences among regional countries. NATO's eastward expansion into the Asia Pacific region will only stir up regional tensions, trigger factional confrontation, and even lead to a new Cold War. Asia Pacific countries do not welcome and many NATO countries do not support "NATO Asia Pacific", and the Asia Pacific region does not need the "Asia Pacific version of NATO".
"We urge NATO to immediately stop distorting, smearing, and fabricating lies against China, abandon the outdated Cold War mentality and zero sum game theory, abandon the erroneous practice of blindly believing in military force and seeking absolute security, abandon the dangerous actions of disrupting Europe and the Asia Pacific region, and not find excuses for its continued expansion. Instead, it should play a constructive role in world peace and stability," he said.
When answering the question about China's lack of nuclear transparency in the summit communiqu é, Wang Wenbin said that NATO, as the military alliance with the most and strongest nuclear weapons, has been engaging in microphone diplomacy in recent years and irresponsibly exaggerating China's nuclear threat, which is completely overturned and extremely hypocritical. China expresses serious concern and firm opposition to this.
He stated that China has always adopted an extremely cautious and responsible attitude on the issue of nuclear weapons. China has always adhered to its nuclear strategy of self-defense and defense, maintaining its nuclear power at the minimum level necessary for national security, and has no intention of engaging in a nuclear arms race. China adheres to the policy of not being the first to use nuclear weapons at any time and under any circumstances, and unconditionally promises not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non nuclear weapon states and zones. It is the only nuclear weapon state to adopt this policy. May I ask which NATO member country dares to make such a commitment?
Wang Wenbin said that the international community has more reason to be concerned about NATO's "nuclear sharing" arrangement. Through this arrangement, NATO has the world's largest nuclear arsenal, and individual member states are intensifying their efforts to modernize their nuclear forces, strengthen so-called "extended deterrence", and increase the risk of nuclear proliferation and conflict. If NATO member countries are truly interested in reducing strategic risks and maintaining strategic stability, they should take practical actions to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national and collective security policies, promote strategic stability through practical actions, and maintain international and regional peace and security.
