China News Service, Beijing, June 30 (Reporter Guo Chaokai) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on the 30th.
A reporter asked: A new "Strategic Concept" document was released at the NATO Madrid summit on June 29. The document mentioned China for the first time, emphasizing that China poses challenges to NATO's values, interests and security, and poses challenges to China's national defense construction, economic policies, technology Development and other fields made more accusations, and at the same time expressed the need to maintain constructive contacts with China.
The summit also invited leaders of Asia-Pacific countries such as Japan and South Korea to attend the summit for the first time. What is China's comment on this?
Zhao Lijian: NATO's so-called new "strategic concept" document disregards the facts, confuses black and white, stubbornly adheres to the wrong positioning of systematic challenges to China, smears China's foreign policy, makes irresponsible remarks about China's normal military development and national defense policy, and encourages confrontation Opposition, full of Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice.
China is seriously concerned about this and firmly opposes it.
As we all know, China has always been a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order.
China has never invaded any country, never engaged in proxy wars, and never joined or formed any military bloc.
China adheres to the path of peaceful development, promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and promotes high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road". It proposes and implements global development initiatives and global security initiatives, and provides a large number of public goods for the international community to solve major issues such as peaceful development.
People all over the world are aware of the great opportunity for China's peaceful development. This is not a systemic challenge imagined by NATO at all.
In contrast, NATO is a systemic challenge to world peace and stability.
NATO claims to be a regional defensive organization, but in fact it continues to break through territories and territories, wage wars everywhere, and kill innocent civilians.
NATO's hands are stained with the blood of the people of the world.
The Chinese people will not forget that 23 years ago, the US-led NATO bombed the Chinese embassy. Now NATO has extended its tentacles to the Asia-Pacific, trying to export the Cold War mentality and replicate the camp confrontation.
The Asia-Pacific is a highland of peace and stability and a land of cooperation and development.
Any action that undermines the peace and stability of the region and undermines the unity and cooperation of the region will meet the common opposition of the Chinese people and the people of Asia-Pacific countries and is doomed to fail.
We would like to warn NATO that it is completely futile to hype the so-called "China threat".
NATO should immediately stop its groundless accusations and provocative remarks against China, abandon the outdated Cold War mentality and the outdated concept of zero-sum game, abandon the wrong practice of superstitious military force and seeking absolute security, and abandon the dangerous act of disrupting Europe and the Asia-Pacific. What it does is to do something good for the security and stability of Europe and the world.
(Finish)