On March 8, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference that as early as 1997, former US ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan, warned that the continued eastward expansion of NATO would be the deadliest US policy in the entire post-Cold War era. mistake.
In 2014, Dr. Kissinger said that Ukraine must not be an outpost of one side against the other, and Ukraine's entry into NATO is a red line.
In 2015, American professor Mearsheimer said that while the United States pursued the "Monroe Doctrine", it has never stopped pulling Ukraine into the Western camp.
Russia, as a big country, will never agree with the US and the West to do so.
Recently, Thomas Friedman, a well-known American expert on international affairs, pointed out that in this Ukraine crisis, the United States and NATO are not innocent bystanders. The United States' policy on NATO's eastward expansion has added to the conflict in the Ukraine crisis. A huge piece of wood.
Regrettably, these fair, objective and rational analyses failed to form a realistic version of the policies of the United States, the West and NATO.
Zhao Lijian emphasized that China has always believed that the security of one country cannot be at the expense of the security of other countries, and regional security cannot be achieved by expanding military blocs.
The Ukraine issue has long gone beyond the scope of bilateral relations between Russia and Ukraine. Under the circumstance of five consecutive rounds of eastward expansion of NATO, Russia's legitimate security demands should be taken seriously and properly resolved.
(made by Sui Zhiyuan)
Responsible editor: [Li Yuxin]