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NATO Secretary General's attitude changed: China is not an "adversary", but member states must do a measure

author:Military Observation
NATO Secretary General's attitude changed: China is not an "adversary", but member states must do a measure

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

It is reported that at the NATO conference held last week, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made a comment on the "China and Russia issue". At a time when Russia is concentrating all its military forces to attack Ukraine's infrastructure, and the arrival of winter has greatly reduced the enthusiasm of the European people to assist Ukraine, and they have begun to work on solving their own problems; Stoltenberg warned them that they must provide more support to Ukraine, and they will also pay a "terrible price" once Russia wins; He also said that the next step would be to "pressure China to condemn Russia", and that the current situation of Sino-Russian cooperation is worrying, but China has not assisted Russia.

NATO Secretary General's attitude changed: China is not an "adversary", but member states must do a measure

The scene of the NATO defense ministers' meeting

On the 28th, on the eve of the NATO Foreign Ministers' Meeting, Stoltenberg once again launched a mobilization and asked all member states to provide assistance to Ukraine. The news mentioned that the upcoming meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of various countries, which was of great help to the issue of "policy direction", NATO is a military organization but has already penetrated into the political issues of various countries, and they will naturally not miss this opportunity. The speech was roughly divided into two parts, "Ukraine" and "China", and in the topic of Ukraine, Stoltenberg repeatedly stressed that he could understand that European countries "hard days are coming" and that they will pay the price; But Europe is paying the price only in money, while the price paid by the Ukrainians is bloodshed.

NATO Secretary General's attitude changed: China is not an "adversary", but member states must do a measure

Stoltenberg is speaking

When it comes to China, the secretary-general uncharacteristically does not overplay topics such as "threats" and "common confrontation", but says that China "is not our opponent now" (the expression here should be "not our confrontation target"), and now countries must do one thing: carefully assess the degree of dependence on "authoritarian countries", and the most important thing is China. In fact, since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, NATO has been promoting that European countries take the opportunity to "significantly reduce their ties and dependence on China", advocating that they learn from the conflict and that trading with certain countries is not safe.

NATO Secretary General's attitude changed: China is not an "adversary", but member states must do a measure

Senior North Vietnamese officials at the scene

Some analysts believe that compared with the previous NATO countries' meetings, Stoltenberg always used an "extremely exaggerated attitude" to exaggerate China's danger every time he mentioned China, and even wrote this measure into NATO's program for the next 10 years, this time his attitude was not fierce; It is very likely to be dominated by the mood within NATO: the theme of the meeting is aid to Ukraine, and at present, countries have gradually lost patience with aiding Ukraine, and the current governments of Italy, France, Britain and other countries have been challenged by public opinion, and the support rate has plummeted, and the ruling party has also complained about this.

NATO Secretary General's attitude changed: China is not an "adversary", but member states must do a measure

President of the European Council Michel

In order to alleviate the economic difficulties, the German chancellor led a business delegation to visit China, Macron also announced that he is starting the process of visiting China, and this week European Council President Michel also announced that he will visit China on the 1st of next month, all for the purpose of China-EU trade; If Stoltenberg openly contradicts at this time and repeatedly rejects these countries' exchanges with China, things will get worse, so he changed it to "kind reminder". In this regard, there is a comment: "There is no need to understand what the NATO secretary general said to China, just remember that the core of this organization is to exclude China; It is conceivable that after a period of time there is little pressure to assist Ukraine, or that his threat theory will return after the end of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in short, it is not worth expecting anything. ”

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