NATO Secretary General claimed Beijing’s increasing efforts to dominate the West

According to IRNA from Reuters news agency; At the 68th annual parliamentary meeting of this Western military alliance in Madrid, Spain, he claimed China’s increasing efforts to dominate the important infrastructure, supply chains and major industrial sectors of the member countries, and asked the allies to show flexibility and stability. Increase their communities and infrastructure.

Referring to the presence of rare Chinese minerals everywhere from phones and cars to NATO military equipment, he said: We should not give autocratic governments a chance to take advantage of our vulnerabilities to harm themselves.

In its new strategic document of June, NATO considered China as an economic and military power that lacks transparency in terms of its strategy, purpose and military reinforcement, a challenge to the interests, security and values ​​of this alliance.
This document indicates a change in the NATO model, because China was not even mentioned in the previous NATO strategy in 2010, which at that time was mainly considered as a safe trading partner and production base in the West.
In this meeting, Stoltenberg pointed to the important decisions of the June NATO summit in Madrid, including strengthening support for Ukraine, deterrence and repulsion, and accepting a new strategic concept and inviting Finland and Sweden to join NATO. He said until next year’s meeting in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. We will follow the implementation of these decisions.

He claimed: “If we give the Russian President Vladimir Putin the opportunity to win in Ukraine, not only will we all have to pay a lot more, but the autocratic governments of the world will learn that they can achieve their goals with brutal force.”

Asking the members to invest more in defense matters, which will be an important topic of the Vilnius meeting, the head of NATO said that he expects the members to make progress in this field and allocating 2% of the GDP to the defense sector should be the minimum defense budget, not the ceiling. it.