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China News Service: The ongoing NATO Summit in Vilnius issued a communiqué saying that “China’s ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values” and pose “systemic challenges to Euro-Atlantic security”. The communiqué says China strives to subvert the “rules-based international order”. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg expressed similar views in his article, saying that “what is happening in Europe today could happen in Asia tomorrow”. What’s China’s comment? Wang Wenbin: The relevant content in the NATO summit communique confuses right and wrong, distorts the truth, and is ridden with Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice. China firmly opposes this. It has been more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War, but NATO, as a product of the Cold War, still holds onto a zero-sum game and confrontational mindset. It turns a blind eye to the call of the international community for peace, development and win-win cooperation. It has been going against the trend of times and the course of history, which is unpopular and is doomed to failure. NATO claims to be a regional organization, but it has gone beyond the geographical scope stipulated by its own treaty and accelerated its eastward expansion into the Asia-Pacific. NATO claims to be a defensive alliance, but it encourages its members to constantly increase military spending, flex their muscles across borders and provoke confrontation in the Asia-Pacific region. NATO claims that it defends the 'rules-based international order', but it has ignored international law and the basic norms governing international relations by interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, getting involved in multiple wars, vending security anxiety and actively provoking troubles. It has become obsessed with creating 'small cliques' featuring bloc politics and stepping up ideological and bloc confrontation. China is a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a defender of the international order, and a provider of public goods. China firmly upholds the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. When it comes to peace and security, China has the best record of any major power. We have never invaded other countries, never engaged in proxy wars, conducted military operations around the world, threatened other countries with force, exported ideology, or interfered in other countries' internal affairs. We do not form or participate in military blocs, and we declare to the rest of the world through legal forms that we will not solve problems by force. In what way does China pose a 'systemic challenge' to NATO? The long-term prosperity and stability of the Asia-Pacific region depends on the mutual respect, openness and cooperation, mutually beneficial cooperation, and proper handling of differences among countries in the region. NATO's eastward expansion into the Asia-Pacific will only stir up regional tensions, trigger bloc confrontation, and even a new Cold War. Asia-Pacific countries do not welcome this; many NATO countries do not approve of the 'NATO-ization of the Asia-Pacific', and neither does the region need an 'Asia-Pacific version of NATO'. We urge NATO to immediately stop distorting facts, discrediting and fabricating lies about China, abandon the outdated Cold War mentality and zero-sum game mindset, renounce its blind faith in military might and misguided practice of seeking absolute security, halt the dangerous attempt to destabilize Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and stop seeking excuses for its relentless expansion, and instead, play a constructive role in world peace and stability. __________________ ShanghaiEye focuses on producing top-quality contents. Nobody knows SHANGHAI better than us. Please subscribe to us ☻☻☻ __________________ For more stories, please click ■ What's up today in Shanghai, the most updated news of the city ■ Amazing Shanghai, exploring the unknown corners of the city, learning the people, food and stories behind them ■ What Chinese people's lives are like during the post COVID-19 period ■ Views of foreign scholars on China and its affairs ■ Foreign faces in Shanghai, people living in this city sharing their true feelings ■ Mini-docs showing why China is the country it is today __________________ ☎Leave us messages if you have any suggestions or questions! Thank you!
