BEIJING: Beijing on Tuesday accused Nato of exaggerating the risk from China and “creating confrontation”, after a vow from the Western allies to work collectively to counter the challenges posed by its insurance policies.
Nato leaders mentioned Monday they might be a part of forces towards the “systemic challenges” posed by China’s insurance policies, as US President Joe Biden renewed Washington’s Transatlantic ties at his first summit with the allies.
In a broad assertion of intent, the leaders mentioned China’s more and more assertive actions in constructing a nuclear arsenal and area and cyber warfare capabilities threatened the worldwide order.
In an indignant response, a press release from the Chinese language Mission to the European Union referred to as for NATO to “view China’s improvement rationally, cease exaggerating numerous types of ‘China risk concept’ and to not use China’s legit pursuits and authorized rights as excuses for manipulating group politics (whereas) artificially creating confrontations”.
It added that NATO’s accusations had been a “slander of China’s peaceable improvement, a misjudgment of the worldwide state of affairs and its personal position, and it’s the continuation of a Chilly Warfare mentality and the group’s political psychology at work”.
NATO Secretary Basic Jens Stoltenberg mentioned the allies would search to cooperate with China on international points like local weather change — however decried Beijing’s more and more assertive stance on different points.
It got here a day after the Chinese language embassy in Britain hit again on the G7 for “political manipulation” after the group criticised China’s human rights report in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
Nato leaders mentioned Monday they might be a part of forces towards the “systemic challenges” posed by China’s insurance policies, as US President Joe Biden renewed Washington’s Transatlantic ties at his first summit with the allies.
In a broad assertion of intent, the leaders mentioned China’s more and more assertive actions in constructing a nuclear arsenal and area and cyber warfare capabilities threatened the worldwide order.
In an indignant response, a press release from the Chinese language Mission to the European Union referred to as for NATO to “view China’s improvement rationally, cease exaggerating numerous types of ‘China risk concept’ and to not use China’s legit pursuits and authorized rights as excuses for manipulating group politics (whereas) artificially creating confrontations”.
It added that NATO’s accusations had been a “slander of China’s peaceable improvement, a misjudgment of the worldwide state of affairs and its personal position, and it’s the continuation of a Chilly Warfare mentality and the group’s political psychology at work”.
NATO Secretary Basic Jens Stoltenberg mentioned the allies would search to cooperate with China on international points like local weather change — however decried Beijing’s more and more assertive stance on different points.
It got here a day after the Chinese language embassy in Britain hit again on the G7 for “political manipulation” after the group criticised China’s human rights report in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.