The so-called new \u201cStrategic Concept\u201d document issued at the just-concluded 2022 NATO Summit distorts China\u2019s domestic and foreign policies. It claims that China challenges NATO\u2019s \u201cinterests, security and values,\u201d and NATO will jointly respond to such \u201csystemic challenge\u201d posed by China.
\nNATO\u2019s efforts to make and spread lies about China and hype the so-called \u201cChina threat\u201d are driven by the organization\u2019s reemerging Cold War mentality and ideological bias. It is just an awkward show staged by the U.S. to extend NATO\u2019s reach to the Asia-Pacific region.
\nNATO\u2019s practice encourages confrontation and threatens global security. Regional countries and the international society must stay alert to it.
\nChina follows an independent foreign policy of peace and is always a staunch force for global peace and prosperity. The country has never initiated a war or conflict and never taken an inch of foreign land, nor has it interfered in other countries domestic affairs or exported ideology. It never engages itself in long-arm jurisdiction, unilateral sanctions, or economic coercion.
\nChina is firmly committed to upholding multilateralism, supporting the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on the Charter of the UN, international law and the universally recognized basic norms governing international relations.
\nPursuing a peaceful development path, China is actively building a society with a shared future for mankind and advancing the high-quality construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. It has proposed and been implementing the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, and offered a number of public products to help the international community deal with major issues on peace and development.
\nChina presents valuable opportunities for world peace and development. It does not pose \u201csystemic challenges\u201d, as wrongly purported by NATO. NATO has disregarded facts and confounded black with white when making groundless accusations, smears and attacks against China. However, it will never change the fact or the international society\u2019s positive evaluation on China.
\nNATO is a Cold War product that is gradually becoming a tool for the U.S. to maintain its hegemony and instigate a new \u201cCold War.\u201d The first-ever mentioning of China in NATO\u2019s so-called \u201cStrategic Concept\u201d document is closely related to U.S. coercion.
\nThe incumbent U.S. administration inherits the wrong practices of its predecessor and keeps seeing China as a strategic competitor. It has formed cliques to oppress China.
\nThe NATO Summit this year has not only hyped the so-called \u201cChina threat,\u201d but also invited some Asia-Pacific allies of the U.S. It exactly exposed the strategic scheme of the U.S. to make NATO\u2019s foray into the Asia-Pacific.
\nChina has to pay a high attention and make a systematic response to NATO\u2019s so-called \u201csystemic challenge\u201d rhetoric. Any attempt to hurt China\u2019s legitimate interests will be met with strong reactions. The country has a firm resolution to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests. The U.S., emboldening itself by involving a few of its allies, will only see its plot fail at the end.
\nNATO has always been haunted by the Cold War mentality though the geopolitical tension has already ended for some 30 years. It has never stopped making enemies out of nothing. Indeed, NATO is a \u201csystemic challenge\u201d for global security.
\nNATO, or North Atlantic Treaty Organization, always poses as a regional defensive organization. However, it has never stopped geographical expansion. It has started and been involved in a big number of wars, killing innocent civilians, hurting world peace and creating humanitarian disasters.
\nTo seek its own absolute security, NATO constantly moved its borders eastward, which led to the bitter fruit of the Ukraine crisis that seriously impacted the peaceful development of Europe and even the world at large.
\nNATO\u201ds previous expansions and disruptive practices were all under the disguise of \u201cconsolidating democracy\u201d and \u201cextending stability, promoting common values.\u201d Today, it is once again playing the same old trick, calling its conspiracy to disrupt the Asia-Pacific region a move to protect \u201cinternational order\u201d and safeguard its values. Even former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana warned that a \u201cglobal NATO\u201d or \u201cNATO plus\u201d could divide the world into adversarial blocs.
\nThe outdated Cold War script must not be repeated in the Asia-Pacific, neither shall the disorder and conflict currently taking place in Europe be duplicated in the region.
\nWe sternly warn NATO that it must immediately stop its groundless accusation and provocative remarks on China, abandon its outworn Cold War mentality and zero-sum game, and halt its dangerous practice of disordering Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
\nAny attempt to reverse the trend of history is doomed to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The so-called new \u201cStrategic Concept\u201d document issued at the just-concluded 2022 NATO Summit distorts China\u2019s domestic and foreign policies. It claims that China challenges NATO\u2019s \u201cinterests, security and values,\u201d and NATO will jointly respond to such \u201csystemic challenge\u201d posed by China. NATO\u2019s efforts to make and spread lies about China and hype the so-called \u201cChina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9441,1116,1137],"class_list":{"0":"post-270323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-global-peace","9":"tag-nato","10":"tag-stability"},"yoast_head":"\n