北约毫不隐讳地针对俄罗斯和中国，极其危险！
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“北约不仅在公报中攻击和诋毁中国，而且北约成员国还不断超越条约规定的地理范围，加速北约向东扩张到亚太地区。”丛培武在9月11日发表在加拿大《企业精神》杂志上的一篇专栏文章中写道：“在欧洲挑起动乱之后，北约现在正试图扰乱亚太地区乃至全球。”
他写道：“在美国的要求下，北约正试图在亚太地区开始一场新冷战。”
NATO Chief Says Weakening Russia Will Help US Focus on
Challenging China
BY TOM O'CONNOR
The head of NATO asserted today that weakening Russia in Ukraine
could allow the United States to intensify its efforts in
countering China.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations on
the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York,
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that the
primary goal of his visit 'is to mobilize support for Ukraine.' A
victory for Kyiv in resisting the war launched by Mosco
w more than a year and a half ago is 'in our security interest,'
Stoltenberg said.
The consequences of such a loss, he warned, would be felt beyond
Europe and extend into Asia as well, where Chinese President Xi has
vowed to retake the disputed island of Taiwan.
'It will be a tragedy for Ukraine if President [Vladimir] Putin
wins, but it will also be extremely dangerous for us,' Stoltenberg
said. 'It will make the world more dangerous and more vulnerable,
because then the message to President Putin and also to President
Xi is that when they use military force, when they violate the
international order, when they invade another country, they get
what they want.'
'So, if the United States is concerned about China and wants to
pivot towards Asia, then you have to ensure that Putin doesn't win
in in Ukraine,' he added, 'because if Ukraine wins, then you will
have the second biggest army in Europe, the Ukrainian army,
battle-hardened, on our side, and we'll have a weakened Russian
army, and we have also now Europe really stepping up for defense
spending.'
Such a scenario, Stoltenberg said, 'will make it easier' for the
U.S. 'to focus also on China,' as Washington can be 'less concerned
about the situation in Europe.'
While NATO is a transatlantic alliance, the 31-member bloc has
increasingly expanded its presence in the Asia-Pacific region,
engaging with partners such as Australia, Japan and New Zealand.
Under Stoltenberg, who will have presided over the coalition for at
least a decade after his term was extended through next October,
NATO has also enhanced its focus on China, whose diplomatic,
economic and military power has accelerated rapidly throughout Xi's
own past decade in power.
Stoltenberg made numerous mentions of China throughout his comments
at the event Wednesday, including references to Beijing's robust
partnership with Moscow. He dismissed the notion that security
issues in Europe and Asia could be completely separated as 'wrong,
for many reasons, not least because we see Beijing and Moscow are
coming more and more closely together.'
The NATO chief noted the 'no-limits' partnership declared by Putin
and Xi just two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and the
increasingly frequent joint aerial and naval patrols conducted by
Chinese and Russian forces in the Asia-Pacific. He also took aim at
China's position on the war in Ukraine, on which Beijing has
remained officially neutral but has at times echoed Moscow's
criticisms of NATO's post-Cold War expansion into Eastern Europe,
viewed by the Kremlin as justification for the conflict.
'The reality is that China is supporting the Russian war effort by
propping up the economy and also by spreading the Russian false
narrative of what this war is about, this war of aggression against
Ukraine,' Stoltenberg said. 'So, what happens in Europe, that
matters for Asia, what happens in Asia matters for Europe.'
'And that's one reason why countries like South Korea and Japan are
extremely concerned about the war in Ukraine,' he added, 'because
they know that if President Putin wins, it lowers the threshold for
President Xi to use force.'
Newsweek has reached out to the Chinese Embassy to the United
States and to Stoltenberg via the Council on Foreign Relations for
comment.
Earlier this month, China's ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu,
criticized NATO's decision to include language critical of China in
its latest communique as well as the alliance's overtures in the
Asia-Pacific region.
'NATO not only attacked and defamed China in their Communiqué, but
the Alliance members also constantly reached beyond their
geographical scope as laid down in its treaty to accelerate NATO's
eastward expansion into the Asia-Pacific region,' Cong wrote in a
September 11 op-ed published in Canada's Esprit de Corps magazine.
'After stirring up turmoil in Europe, NATO is now attempting to
disrupt the Asia-Pacific region and the entire globe.'
Cong added that 'at the behest of the U.S., NATO is attempting to
start a New Cold War in the Asia-Pacific region.'
