Brussels: US President Joe Biden will continue his anti-China roadshows among US’ allies at the key summits during his ongoing European tour including the upcoming US-EU summit, said Chinese experts after a communiqué from the NATO summit issued on Monday described China as presenting “systemic challenges.” It also came after the Group of Seven (G7) summit was held in the UK, in which multiple China-related issues like Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan and COVID-19 origin issues were found in the joint communiqué. Chinese experts warned that the NATO summit on Monday will serve as a wind vane of how the US-led NATO will adjust under the core task of suppressing China and Russia, while in the bigger picture within the EU, the divergences between the US and EU countries are unlikely to be mended. The NATO Summit Communiqué issued on Monday noted that China’s growing influence and international policies can present challenges that NATO needs to address together. It also listed a number of challenges it believed China has presented including accusing China of expanding its nuclear arsenal, being opaque in its publicly declared military-civil fusion strategy and cooperating militarily with Russia. Also, the communiqué said that NATO will “continue to work closely together to address all the threats and challenges posed by Russia.” While French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that the G7 is not a club that is hostile to China, the spokesperson of China’s Embassy in the UK on Monday slammed the G7 communiqué for distorting facts, and intentionally smearing China. “What the world has seen at this summit is the practice of clique politics, power politics, and the artificial creation of confrontation and division,” said the spokesperson. The confrontation seems set to continue on the larger stage of the first NATO meeting since Biden took office. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with Canadian public network CBC on Sunday that during the summit, they will strengthen policy on an “increasingly aggressive” China.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
