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June 14, 2021After the British days, last night the President of the United States Joe Biden landed in Brussels, where the NATO summit and the one between the US and the EU are scheduled to start today.
Today the meeting of the 30 heads of state and government of the Atlantic alliance is scheduled, and on the sidelines of the summit a bilateral bid by Biden with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled.
Last Monday, Biden had spoken with the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, on a visit to Washington for a preparatory meeting for the summit: at the center of today's meeting, there will be above all relations with Russia, as Stoltenberg himself explained to the eve of the appointment. Tomorrow, the US president will meet the presidents of the EU institutions for the first bilateral since 2014, when Barack Obama was still in the White House. Then he will move to Geneva, where, on Wednesday 16, a highly anticipated first meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin is scheduled.
Apart from Russia, even from a military point of view, Beijing remains the real guest of stone in Biden's meetings. This was clearly stated by the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg, in an interview with the public television network of Canada Cbc. China, he recalled, "has the second largest defense budget in the world, the largest navy and is investing heavily in new military equipment." But above all, "China does not share our values. We see it in the way it represses democratic protests in Hong Kong, in the way it oppresses minorities such as that of the Uighurs" as well as, according to Stoltenberg, in the way they use the modern technology to monitor their population "in a way we've never seen before." Here's why, according to theNorwegian politician, "it is important for NATO to develop and strengthen our policy when it comes to China".