According to a Chinese Foreign Ministry representative, NATO's new strategy misidentifies Beijing as a strategic challenge.
China considers the new strategic concept of NATO, which the Alliance adopted during the summit in Madrid, “irresponsible”. This was stated by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Zhao Lijian, the BBC reports.
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the new approach of the Alliance takes into account the use by Russia and China of “economic leverage, coercion and hybrid approaches to advance their interests in the region.”
Beijing called NATO's new strategy irresponsible.
“The so-called new NATO strategic concept ignores the facts,” Lijian said.
According to a representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the new strategy of the Alliance “misidentifies China as a strategic challenge and discredits China's foreign policy”.
Lijian added that the new strategy of the Alliance is “irresponsible, encourages conflict and is full of Cold War thinking and ideological
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In the capital of Spain, Madrid, 30 NATO countries adopted a new concept and doctrine of the Alliance for the next 10 years .
The adopted concept text states that Russia is the “most significant and direct threat” to NATO, and China's “policy of coercion” challenges the “interests, security and values” of the Alliance.
NATO countries strongly condemned the war Russia against Ukraine, calling on the Russian Federation to stop hostilities, and Belarus to stop complicity in the war.
Also, NATO officially started the process of admitting Sweden and Finland to the Alliance. The decision was supported by all 30 leaders.
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