Vi har nå sett at NATO fartøyer har patruljert Sør-Kinahavet, men ikke på vegne av NATO, men en pre cursor av ting som har ligget i luften. Norge har ikke nådd 2% målet, noe som er foruroligende, gitt den aggressive utviklingen av Kina. Det er forståelig at NATO tar i betraktning realitetene, men Solberg regjeringen er ikke enige i at NATO skal utvide sitt operasjonsområde. Det er ikke å se realitetene i verdenssituasjonen nå. (Red.)
NATO Priorities
NATO leaders declare China a global security challenge
14 hours ago
NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg, right, speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden during a bilateral
meeting on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, 2021.
(Stephanie Lecocq/AP)
In a summit statement, the leaders said that China’s
goals and “assertive behavior present systemic challenges to the rules-based
international order and to areas relevant to alliance security.”
While the 30 heads of state and government avoided
calling China a rival, they expressed concern about what they said were its
“coercive policies,” the opaque ways it is modernizing its armed forces and its
use of disinformation.
They called on Beijing to uphold its international
commitments and to act responsibly in the international system.
The statement comes as President Joe Biden has stepped up his effort to rally allies to speak in a more unified voice about China’s human rights record, its trade practices and its military’s increasingly assertive behavior that has unnerved U.S. allies in the Pacific.
Biden, who arrived at the summit after three days of consulting with Group of
Seven allies in England, pushed for the G-7 communique there that called out
what it said were forced labor practices and other human rights violations
impacting Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang
province. The president said he was satisfied with the communique, although
differences remain among the allies about how forcefully to criticize Beijing.
The new Brussels communique states plainly that the
NATO nations “will engage China with a view to defending the security interests
of the alliance.””
The Chinese Embassy to the United Kingdom on Monday
issued a statement saying the G-7 communique “deliberately slandered China and
arbitrarily interfered in China’s internal affairs,” and exposed the “sinister
intentions of a few countries, such as the United States.” There was no
immediate reaction from the Chinese government to the new NATO statement.
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