Why did the NATO summit once again "hit China hard"? NATO | Europe | Summit
On the 12th local time, the NATO Vilnius Summit concluded. The summit joint communiqu é released the day before mentioned China more than ten times and once again claimed that China poses a "systemic challenge" to European Atlantic security. Compared with the "Strategic Concept" document passed at the NATO Madrid Summit in June last year, the summit communique has clearly named China more times and has also shown a more aggressive attitude of being a "teacher's master".
According to NATO's schedule, this summit mainly discusses the situation in Ukraine and the issue of expansion. Why did China once again "hit the nail on the head"? It's not really strange. NATO is the world's largest military alliance, and its fundamental driving force for survival is to have opponents. How was this opponent determined? From the several versions of NATO's updated "strategic concept" documents after the end of the Cold War, it can be seen that each update almost follows the strategic adjustment of the United States, reflecting its strategic demands. After the Biden administration took office, it mistakenly positioned China as the "most important strategic competitor" and explicitly stated that the "Indo Pacific strategy" requires NATO participation. Under Washington's "baton", NATO has become more and more tough with China, and has tried to use this as an excuse to get involved in Asia Pacific affairs by labeling China as a "systematic challenge".
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NATO Secretary General Sturtenberg has bluntly stated that addressing the "Chinese threat" should be an important basis for NATO's survival in the future.This confirms that using China as a hypothetical enemy has become a continuation of NATO's mission.
Today, under pressure from Washington, NATO is no longer a spokesperson for European security, but a defender of American interests. It unreasonably accuses China of constituting a "systemic challenge", which may not even be recognized by many members within them. Because the fact is clear: China has never initiated a conflict, never occupied an inch of land from another country, nor launched a proxy war. For over 30 years, China has sent over 50000 people to participate in United Nations peacekeeping operations, known as the "key factors and key forces of peacekeeping operations.".
It is NATO, which is most adept at creating "imaginary enemies", that is the world's most vigilant "systemic challenge". More than 30 years after the end of the Cold War, this Cold War product is still engaged in camp confrontation and has become a "war machine" driven by the United States. NATO claims to be a defensive organization defending a rule-based international order, but bypasses the United Nations Security Council and launches wars against multiple sovereign countries such as the Southern Alliance and Syria, resulting in a large number of civilian deaths and tens of millions of people being displaced.
Taking the Ukraine crisis as an example, its root cause is the continuous eastward expansion of NATO, which has eroded and squeezed Russia's security space. After the crisis broke out, the United States pushed NATO member countries to deliver a large amount of weapons to Ukraine, leading to a stalemate and intensification of the war situation. This war occurred on the land of Europe, and the vast majority of NATO member countries were European countries, making them direct victims of the war. They are waving flags and shouting for the United States, but in return, they have suffered numerous scars on themselves and the security situation in Europe has deteriorated, becoming a true "scapegoat".
According to the latest news, the key obstacle for Sweden's accession to NATO has been cleared, which means NATO will expand again. The fact has long proven that wherever NATO's black hand extends, chaos follows. Ladika Desai, a political science professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada, recently pointed out in an interview with China Central Television that NATO's continuous eastward expansion has ultimately undermined European security; Now NATO is extending its tentacles to the Asia Pacific region, which will also threaten the security of the region.
Objectively speaking, there are also some rational voices within NATO. Some member countries, represented by France, insist on seeking European strategic autonomy, believing that NATO should not cross the geographical boundaries of the North Atlantic, extend its tentacles to the Asia Pacific, and establish liaison offices in Japan. French President Macron stated at a press conference after the summit that NATO is a North Atlantic organization, while Japan is not in the North Atlantic. Such voices need to seek more consensus within NATO. If NATO insists on following the United States and wants to disrupt the Asia Pacific region after disrupting Europe, what awaits it is a resolute resistance.
