“For the first time, the summit will touch upon the issue of China and the challenges that Beijing poses for our security, interests and values,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Stoltenberg added that the allies intend to discuss options for responding to the growing influence of Russia and China in the southern territories adjacent to NATO.
He also said that at the summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in Madrid, Russia will be declared one of the significant threats to collective security.
Earlier it became known that the United States expects that the new NATO strategic concept, which is planned to be adopted during the upcoming summit of the alliance in Madrid, will contain a number of "tough" language against China.