China slams NATO as a ‘walking war machine’

Beijing has slammed NATO as tensions escalate between the strategic alliance and China’s ally Russia over the Ukraine war.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s NATO focuses primarily on issues relating to Europe and North America. However, the alliance has increasingly set its sights on Asia in recent years due to perceived regional threats from China and good relations between Beijing and Moscow.

At a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian denounced NATO as a “walking war machine that causes chaos wherever it goes,” according to China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency.

The Xinhua news agency said, “Mr. Wu urges NATO to stop fabricating lies and dangerous actions that cause chaos in the Asia-Pacific region, to treat China and the development of the Chinese military objectively and rationally, and to do what is beneficial to world peace.” I asked them to do something.”

newsweek NATO was contacted for comment Thursday night via an online media contact form.

Many international observers have expressed concern that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could serve as a template for China to take military control of disputed territories, including Taiwan.

Beijing has recently moved to assert its sovereignty claims over large portions of the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, contrary to international maritime law and the views of nearly every country in the world.

last week, Nikkei Shimbun North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials said they are working with Japan to establish “dedicated lines of communication for the rapid sharing of sensitive security information” that could counter “disinformation programs by countries such as China and Russia.” It was reported that they are in talks with.

NATO plans to open a liaison office in Japan were reportedly scrapped last year after French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concerns that it would provoke China.

Opinion article published in July Global TimesThe Chinese Communist Party-run tabloid claimed that NATO was a “terrible monster that must be avoided at all costs” and threatened that interference in Asia would have “grave consequences” for the alliance.

“More directly, NATO should immediately withdraw its black hand towards the Asia-Pacific region and should not even think about squeezing half of its body in the future,” the article said. There is.

Retired US Navy Adm. James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), warned last month that China’s territorial disputes could spark a new world war, and warned that the possibility He warned that there would likely be a 10-year “grace period” to prepare for the

Meanwhile, although China remains officially neutral toward the war, relations between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have strengthened since the outbreak of the Ukraine war.

At the same time, NATO is expanding and building its military presence along the border with Russia. Tensions in the region are on a razor’s edge, especially since a war with an individual NATO member obliges the entire alliance to participate in the conflict.

British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said in an op-ed published in Politico on Wednesday that allowing Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to end with a victory for Moscow would be an “all-you-can-get move against China.” It will send a signal that.”