NATO says China presents ‘systemic’ challenges

[Reashot Xigwin]

Beijing’s ‘assertive behaviour’ is challenging the ‘rules-based international order’, transatlantic security alliance says.

NATO heads of the states and governments pose for a family photo during the NATO summit at the Alliance's headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium [Kevin Lamarque/Pool/Reuters]
14 Jun 2021

Updated:
14 Jun 2021
05:44 PM (GMT)
NATO has moved to confront China’s military ambitions for the first time, issuing a communique that said Beijing presents “systemic challenges” for the transatlantic security alliance.
The communique followed a summit of NATO leaders in Brussels on Monday and marked a diplomatic victory for US President Joe Biden, who had urged the 30-member strong alliance to stand up to China’s burgeoning military, political and economic might.

The language will now set the path for alliance policy and comes a day after the Group of Seven wealthy nations issued a statement on alleged human rights abuses in China and Taiwan that Beijing said slandered its reputation.
“China’s stated ambitions and assertive behaviour present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to alliance security,” NATO’s 79-point communique said.
It accused Beijing of “rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal” and being “opaque in implementing its military modernisation”, as well as highlighting China’s military cooperation with Russia in exercises in the Euro-Atlantic region as a concern.

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe Biden attend a plenary session at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 14, 2021 [Brendan Smialowski/Pool/REUTERS]“We call on China to uphold its international commitments and to act responsibly in the international system, including in the space, cyber, and maritime domains, in keeping with its role as a major power,” the communique said.


Addressing reporters following the summit, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there was a “strong convergence of views among allies” regarding the challenges posed by Beijing’s behaviour.
“Leaders agreed that we need to address such challenges as an alliance and that we need to engage with China to defend our security interests,” he said.
Biden said the alliance’s mutual defence pact was a “sacred obligation” for the US – a marked shift in tone from his predecessor Donald Trump, who had threatened to withdraw from the alliance and accused Europeans of contributing too little to their own defence.
“I want all Europe to know that the United States is there,” said Biden. “NATO is critically important to us.”
Balancing threat
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, at her last summit of the alliance before she steps down in September, described Biden’s arrival as the opening of a new chapter. She also said it was important to deal with China as a potential threat, while keeping it in perspective.

“If you look at the cyber threats and the hybrid threats, if you look at the cooperation between Russia and China, you cannot simply ignore China,” Merkel told reporters. “But one must not overrate it, either – we need to find the right balance.”

Biden said both Russia and China were not acting “in a way that is consistent with what we had hoped”.
Al Jazeera’s Senior Political Analyst Marwan Bishara said the comments made by Stoltenberg and others in Brussels should not be taken “lightly”.
“There is a new Cold War being manufactured. And this new Cold War would have a huge, huge ramifications for international security,” Bishara told Al Jazeera from Paris, France.
“What we have been seeing the last few days and today … is the US insisting on maintaining American primacy around the world, and rejecting any of sort bipolarity with China.”
In other developments, NATO’s communique said the alliance would adapt to climate-related security challenges, called on Russia to drop its designation of two allies – the United States and the Czech Republic – as “unfriendly countries” and urged Iran to stop all ballistic missile activities.
The alliance also said it was committed to providing transitional funding for the Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, after the US-led withdrawal of allied troops from the country.

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[aziqbal]

in Asia you have he following

JMSDF
South Korea
Australia and Taiwan

on top of that add the US assets in the region

China does not stand a chance

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

in Asia you have he following

JMSDF
South Korea
Australia and Taiwan

on top of that add the US assets in the region

China does not stand a chance

Not even counting NATO & Regional partners like India. China is boned.

 

[SpaceMan18]

Not even counting NATO & Regional partners like India. China is boned.

R.I.P XIjingPing

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

China has existed for 5,000 years continuously. America may be on top for now. But let's see in 1,000 years from now who is on top.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

NATO is irrelevant and long overdue for dismantling for the sake of peace and harmony in Europe and the world.

Right now, it is just a postwar II instrument created during the cold war and continue to be used by a hegemonic USA to maintain their US supremacy.

 

[bshifter]

America is a joke when it needs so many countries trying to issue some kind of warning directed at China.

 

[truthseeker2010]

in Asia you have he following

JMSDF
South Korea
Australia and Taiwan

on top of that add the US assets in the region

China does not stand a chance

why don't NATO/QUAD give a try and give themselves a chance?

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

America is a joke when it needs so many countries trying to issue some kind of warning directed at China.

If the US managed to get NATO & the leader of seven of the most powerful countries to get on board on a single issue it is not a joke, if anything china's days are numbered.

 

[PakFactor]

NATO is irrelevant and long overdue for dismantling for the sake of peace and harmony in Europe and the world.

Right now, it is just a postwar II instrument created during the cold war and continue to be used by a hegemonic USA to maintain their US supremacy.

Why would U.S. get rid of the single most important tool it’s in box that gives it supreme power? No sane long term strategic thinker would even think about it’s dismantling, had China been in U.S. position leading a NATO like alliance even China wouldn’t do something as stupid as that.

Those who say China or U.S. days are numbered are blind to last 70 years of history. Great Powers don’t fight in this age directly, not yet at least, it’s their smaller ally’s that become the battle field.

Hence, why I’ve always felt those nations giving space to Great Powers (bases, etc) put themselves in the worst position and paint a bulls eye on their front and back. You become involved in the Great Game with no real understanding a fickle candle flame that’ll be blown out.

Those smaller nations are better of strategizing and getting the bigger powers position to fight themselves, and stay on the side line.

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

Why would U.S. get rid of the single most important tool it’s in box that gives it supreme power? No sane long term strategic thinker would even think about it’s dismantling, had China been in U.S. position leading a NATO like alliance even China wouldn’t do something a stupid as that.

You talking to a bot here. It doesn't have to make sense it just has to make the other sides look bad.

Even in post soviet era NATO are now more important than ever dealing with global terrorism, rogue countries like Russia & the rising chinese threat.

The thing is China wish to have a NATO like organization on their side. The problem is nobody likes or trust china to get countries to join an alliance.

 

[OIO]

You talking to a bot here. It doesn't have to make sense it just has to make the other sides look bad.

Even in post soviet era NATO are now more important than ever dealing with global terrorism, rogue countries like Russia & the rising chinese threat.

The thing is China wish to have a NATO like organization on their side. The problem is nobody likes or trust china to get countries to join an alliance.

Russia has invited China to form a military alliance against the United States many years ago. However, China's idea is to surpass the United States in economic and technological terms. China and Russia still retain the option of military alliances. With the decline of the United States, Russia has already seen the dawn.

For European countries or other NATO countries, it is not a good strategy to work with the United States to force China and Russia into a military alliance.

For Southeast Asian countries, everything became clear in 2016. China was ready to fight the United States in the South China Sea, but the U.S. Navy runs away.

The confrontation between military alliances means a world war, and the countries of Asia and Europe should avoid the recurrence of World War I and World War II.

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

Russia has invited China to form a military alliance against the United States many years ago. However, China's idea is to surpass the United States in economic and technological terms. China and Russia still retain the option of military alliances. With the decline of the United States, Russia has already seen the dawn.

For European countries or other NATO countries, it is not a good strategy to work with the United States to force China and Russia into a military alliance.

For Southeast Asian countries, everything became clear in 2016. China was ready to fight the United States in the South China Sea, but the U.S. Navy runs away.

The confrontation between military alliances means a world war, and the countries of Asia and Europe should avoid the recurrence of World War I and World War II.

Numerous think tank already proves the unlikeness of such an alliance. First of china is not going to agree with Russian troops being stationed or able to use chinese assets or vice versa. So trust is pretty much the big issue here preventing an alliance to occurs.

It won't be a world war if it's just china getting pummeled. That's why it's going to be like a repeat of the Boxer rebellion but bigger in scale. China has no single friend to help escalate it into a world war. That's why containing china is more likely & possible.

 

[Beast]

NATO is useless..

Only China vs US only.

Between NATO, there are massive conflict between Germany, Italy, France, UK with regards to China.

In Asia, south Korea hate Japan more than anything. If China ask south Korea for alliance for an invasion against Japan. They will not even hesitate.

 

[OIO]

Numerous think tank already proves the unlikeness of such an alliance. First of china is not going to agree with Russian troops being stationed or able to use chinese assets or vice versa. So trust is pretty much the big issue here preventing an alliance to occurs.

It won't be a world war if it's just china getting pummeled. That's why it's going to be like a repeat of the Boxer rebellion but bigger in scale. China has no single friend to help escalate it into a world war. That's why containing china is more likely & possible.

The United States is in a dilemma. If the United States retreats from the rest of the world and only deals with China, it will also not be able to maintain global hegemony. Other countries will continue to put forward new demands on the United States to challenge the bottom line of the United States. Simply put, the United States is not strong enough to maintain global hegemony. The so-called allies are clear about this.