NATO uses China as excuse to interfere in Asia-Pacific affairs in complicity with US strategy
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is no loner confined to its traditional domains and missions but aggressively setting sights and expanding footprints in the Asia-Pacific region for ulteriorly creating an anti-China hostile encirclement in pandering to appetite of the United States in maintaining its global hegemony and gaining one-upmanship in geopolitical rivalry, according to a China Media Group (CMG) commentary published on Thursday.
An edited English-language translation of the commentary is as follows:
The NATO Vilnius Summit concluded on Wednesday. The summit’s joint communique released on Tuesday mentioned China for a dozen times and claimed again that China poses a “systemic challenge” to Euro-Atlantic security.
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Compared with the “strategic concept” document adopted at the NATO Madrid Summit in June 2022, this current version mentioned China much more frequently and posed sanctimonious preaching in a condescending manner.
According to NATO’s schedule, the summit mainly discussed the situation in Ukraine and the issue of membership expansion. Why did it point fingers at China again?
It’s not surprising. NATO is the world’s largest military alliance, and its fundamental motivation for survival is the need for adversaries.
How was this opponent determined? From the several editions of NATO’s “strategic concept” documents updated after the end of the Cold War, every update almost follows the strategic adjustment of the United States and reflecting the strategic demands of the U.S.
After the Biden administration came to power, it mistakenly identified China as the “most consequential strategic competitor” and explicitly proposed that the “Indo-Pacific strategy” requires NATO participation. Under the command of the U.S., NATO has increasingly taken a hardline stance on China with the purpose of expanding its footprints in the Asia-Pacific region by labeling China as a “systemic challenge” in complicity with the U.S. geopolitical rivalry.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had bluntly said that in the future, dealing with the “China threat” should be an important basis for NATO’s survival. At the press conference of this summit, although he said China is not an enemy of NATO and needs to maintain contact, he soon made a series of absurd remarks such as the Chinese mainland threatens Taiwan and China accelerates its military construction. This proves that taking China as the “imaginary enemy” has become a move to justify NATO’s existence.
Today, under pressure from Washington, NATO is no longer a spokesman for European security, but a defender of U.S. interests. Its unreasonable accusation that China poses a “systemic challenge” may not even be shared by many of its own members.
The facts are clear: China has never initiated a conflict, nor occupied an inch of other countries’ land or waged a proxy war. Over the past 30 years and more, China has sent more than 50,000 personnel to participate in the United Nations peacekeeping operations.
It is NATO, which is good at creating “imaginary enemies,” that is the “systemic challenge” that the world should be most vigilant about.
More than 30 years after the end of the Cold War, this product of the Cold War is still engaged in camp confrontation and has become a “war machine” driven by the United States.
NATO claims to be a defensive organization in safeguarding the rules-based international order, but it has bypassed the UN Security Council to launch wars against sovereign states such as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Syria, killing a large number of civilians and displacing tens of millions of people.
The crisis in Ukraine, for example, is rooted in NATO’s eastward expansion, which has eroded and squeezed Russia’s security space.
After the crisis broke out, the U.S. pushed NATO members to send a raft of weapons to Ukraine, leading to heightened situations of the conflict.
The war took place on European soil, and the vast majority of NATO members are European countries, which are naturally the direct victims of the war. They did the U.S. bidding in return for the deteriorating security situation in Europe. They have become an easy touch.
According to the latest news, a key obstacle to Sweden’s membership in NATO has been removed, which means that NATO will be expanded again.
It has long been proven that wherever NATO goes, chaos follows.
Radhika Desai, a political science professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada, said in a recent interview with China Media Group that NATO’s continuous eastward expansion has ultimately undermined European security. Now NATO is extending its influence into the Asia-Pacific region, which will also threaten the security of the region.
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Speaking objectively, there still exists some voices of rationality within NATO.
Some members, notably France, insist on European strategic autonomy, arguing that NATO should not extend its reach across the North Atlantic geographic border to the Asia-Pacific by opening a liaison office in Japan.
French President Emmanuel Macron said at a press conference after the summit that NATO is a North Atlantic organization, and Japan is not in the North Atlantic.
Such voices need to expand consensus within NATO. If NATO insists on its obstinacy in keeping pace with the U.S. in messing up Europe and the Asia-Pacific region afterwards, it’s bound to meet strong backlash from the international community.
