China News Service, June 30 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) On June 29, in Madrid, Spain, a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was being staged.

Leaders of participating member states approved the NATO Strategic Concept 2022.

　　Not surprisingly, China and Russia have become the "protagonists" of NATO's new strategic concept.

　　In the document, NATO mentioned China more than 10 times and Russia more than 10 times, defining the two as "systemic challenges" and "most significant threats" respectively.

Under this "Cold War Restoration" style of competitive thinking, it is obvious how NATO will deal with China and Russia next!

NATO leaders approve new strategic concept.

Image source: NATO official website

【What is the strategic concept of NATO?

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　　According to NATO's official website, etc., the strategic concept is a very important document for NATO and is updated about every ten years.

　　NATO first adopted the "New Strategic Concept of the Alliance" at the Rome summit in 1991.

Since then, NATO has updated its strategic concept several times.

　　This document is the programmatic document that guides the development of NATO, the world's largest military alliance, which, according to NATO, conducts a collective assessment of security challenges and guides the alliance's political and military activities.

Data map: The scene of the NATO Defense Ministers' meeting.

　　NATO has drawn up a list of things that member states must do over the next decade, including "priorities, core tasks and approaches."

In other words, what to do, to whom, and how.

　　NATO said the group's new strategic concept for 2022 "describes the security environment NATO faces, reaffirms its values ​​and articulates NATO's key purpose of ensuring collective defense".

The concept further articulates three core missions of NATO until around 2030:

　　· Deterrence and Defense

　　·Crisis prevention and management

　　·Cooperative security

[The new version has two major adjustments]

　　The last version of the strategic concept was adopted at the NATO Lisbon summit in 2010.

In that version, NATO still defines Russia as a "partner."

At that time, it planned to cooperate with Russia in the fields of arms control, anti-terrorism, anti-drug trafficking and piracy.

　　However, for this "partner", NATO must both defend and pull, and it is a "two-handed chess": on the one hand, deterrence and defense, on the other hand, dialogue and parallel advancement.

Data map: NATO's annual exercise "Sabre Strike" was held in Poland.

　　This time, for the new strategic concept, NATO has made two major adjustments, targeting Russia and China.

　　Russia, the former "partner", was clearly defined by NATO as the "most significant and direct threat" twelve years later.

　　After more than ten years, the relationship between Russia and NATO has not advanced but retreated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated bitterly that the root cause of the deterioration of the relationship between the two sides is that NATO has used "deception" to force five rounds of eastward expansion, pushing Russia into a corner.

　　As soon as NATO's new strategic concept came out, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov condemned NATO for "irresponsibly undermining the European security architecture". Contrary to what NATO said, if it is a threat, it is also "NATO poses a threat to Russia."

[Mentioned to China more than ten times]

　　On the other hand, as a non-Atlantic country, China, which has not appeared in NATO's strategic concept before, is now considered to pose a "systemic challenge" to NATO.

　　Recently, NATO has released the "China Threat Theory" on many occasions to build momentum in advance.

At the opening ceremony of the Madrid summit, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg once again pointed out that although "China is not our enemy, we must be soberly aware of the serious challenges it brings".

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg.

　　The reporter searched and found that in the 16-page strategic concept document of NATO, the main text is about 11 pages, of which China is mentioned at least 11 times, which is only 3 times less than the number of mentions of Russia, the "most important threat" of NATO.

　　The content that accompanies "China" is basically negative. For example, NATO believes that:

　　China "seeks to control key technology and industrial sectors, critical infrastructure and strategic materials and supply chains";

　　China "is committed to subverting the rules-based international order in space, cyber and ocean";

　　China "uses economic influence to build strategic dependencies and increase influence";

　　· China "poses a systemic challenge to security, interests and values" to Euro-Atlantic...

　　China, China, China!

Development is the original sin?

Can NATO's sight be so inseparable from China?

[The old routine of drawing lines with ideology]

　　In short, the nature, object, purpose, and purpose of NATO's plan are clear - to respond to China's "systemic challenges" and "defend common values ​​and a rules-based international order, including freedom of navigation."

　　The word "values" is very dazzling.

NATO under the leadership of the United States often emphasizes that "our NATO allies have" "common values" and come together on the premise of "consistent values".

The new NATO 2022 strategic concept defines China for the first time as a "challenge to the security, interests and values" of NATO allies.

Image source: NATO official website

　　What are the "values" of America?

On the bright side, a few words are repeated over and over: democracy, freedom, human rights, and the rule of law.

Behind the scenes, this is just an old-fashioned way of inciting division and drawing ideological lines, such as the failed "democracy summit" convened by US President Biden.

　　NATO's recent attack on the two fronts of Europe and Asia is to search for so-called "value allies" everywhere, trying to pull the Asia-Pacific countries into the "chariot".

　　"A rules-based international order" is even more nonsense.

The rules that NATO emphasizes are the rules that the United States has the final say on big and small matters; the order that NATO wants is an order that benefits the United States and NATO on the basis of harming the interests of other countries.

[China firmly opposes and warns of "counterattack"]

　　On June 29, the Chinese Mission to the European Union responded that NATO's "Strategic Concept Paper" contained a Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice against China, and China resolutely opposed it.

　　The spokesperson of the mission to the EU pointed out four points:

　　1. As a product of the Cold War and the world's largest military alliance, NATO has not changed its thinking and practice of creating "enemies" and engaging in camp confrontation 30 years after the end of the Cold War.

　　2. NATO's "Strategic Concept Paper" claims that other countries bring challenges, but it is NATO itself that creates troubles around the world.

　　3. NATO claims to be a defensive organization that defends the rules-based international order, but recklessly bypasses the UN Security Council and launches wars against sovereign states, resulting in the loss of large numbers of civilians and the displacement of tens of millions of people.

　　4. NATO claims that the defense zone will not break through the North Atlantic, but in recent years it has gone to the Asia-Pacific region to show its power, trying to replicate the routine of group confrontation in Europe to the Asia-Pacific.

　　The spokesperson also said that China will pay close attention to it and make a coordinated response.

"We will resolutely and forcefully fight back against acts that violate our interests."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

　　On the 30th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that NATO's so-called new "strategic concept" document stubbornly adheres to the wrong positioning of systematic challenges to China and makes irresponsible remarks about China's normal military development and national defense policy. China is seriously concerned about this. ,strongly oppose.

　　He pointed out that 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 promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, promotes high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, 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.

　　At the same time, the Chinese people will not forget that 23 years ago, NATO led by the United States bombed the Chinese embassy. Now NATO has extended its tentacles to the Asia-Pacific in an attempt to export the Cold War mentality and replicate 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.

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