NATO is expected to publish a report on Tuesday that says Russia will remain its adversary throughout this decade but calls on the alliance to put more focus on China. The report, titled “NATO 2030,” contains 138 proposals to reform NATO.
“China is no longer the benign trading partner that the West had hoped for. It is the rising power of our century and NATO must adapt,” a NATO diplomat that saw the report told Reuters. The diplomat said part of the strategy would be to maintain a technological edge over China.
According to Reuters, the report suggests that NATO should work closer with non-NATO countries like Australia. The plan also calls for NATO to focus on deterring China in space.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has promoted the idea that the alliance should work to counter China. Stoltenberg discussed Beijing at a news conference on Monday. The NATO chief said China’s posed “important challenges to our security.”
“China is investing massively in new weapons. It is coming closer to us, from the Arctic to Africa. China does not share our values … and tries to intimidate other countries,” Stoltenberg said.
The European Union is also looking to counter Beijing in the realms of trade and technology by forming an anti-China coalition with the US. Financial Times reported on Sunday that the EU has a drafted proposal for a new transatlantic agenda that will be put forward for the approval of national leaders at a meeting on December 11th and 12th.
A draft of the EU plan reads: “As open democratic societies and market economies, the EU and the US agree on the strategic challenge presented by China’s growing international assertiveness, even if we do not always agree on the best way to address this.”
The Trump administration has been looking to strengthen alliances in Asia to counter China. The US, India, Japan, and Australia make up the informal alliance known as the Quad. The four countries recently held military drills together for the first time in over a decade, a clear message to Beijing. Some US officials hope the Quad can be the foundation for a NATO-style security alliance in Asia.
The spooks in the military industrial complex need a boogieman to scare the sheep, and further enrich the weapons companies, the congress, and senate, and the disgusting lobbyists. China is not a threat on any level, and sound minds know this, but they enjoy the lies, deceit and risking war.
Do the Uighurs, India, Philippines, Japan and Australians agree?
The Australians should have thought first before it joined Trump to vilify Huawei and China itself. Now it is paying the price.
Irrelevant, the above groups do not trust China, and for good reason.
Irrelevant. He was talking about the US(enrich the weapons companies, the congress, and senate, and the disgusting lobbyist)and not the above groups. And he was right.
Irrelevant,
the “above groups” see China as a threat on many levels.
Ok enough is enough, nato should be retired like its foe was so long ago(warsaw pact) and to use it to bully china is so…2020
“NATO is expected to publish a report on Tuesday that says Russia will remain its adversary throughout this decade”
Now there is a sound strategy. Tell the world in 2020 that there is no chance for anything but an adversarial relationship with a country with real nukes for the next 10 years. Fucking brilliant!
And this:
“China is investing massively in new weapons. It is coming closer to us, from the Arctic to Africa. China does not share our values … and tries to intimidate other countries,” Stoltenberg said.
China would have to triple their budget to come close to our expenditures on weaponry. It’s interests in other countries isn’t in the military vein and we have no values. But the real whopper is that it tries to intimidate other countries. A new winner in the kettle calling the pot black contest.
What JOLT…!!!!! From the N. Alantic…..tở the Sea of China.. And just which member is threatened????? Yeah, Yeah, I know there”s trillions in petroleum under that sea, and it would set a terrible precedent if we let the Chinese get it… Our boys wouldn’t get our, I mean their cut, share.
What has NATO got to do with China. ? Is it attempting to validate it’s existence.?
China has developed a 20 Mach capable jet engine. If you ask Trump he will say it was stolen from the US, although he is known to lie quite frequently.