Beijing poses a “systemic challenge to security,” according to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
NATO plans to deepen its cooperation with partners in Asia as a response to a rising “security challenge” coming from China, which refuses to condemn Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine, the US-led bloc's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg revealed during a press conference on Tuesday.
He announced that the bloc will host foreign ministers from member states as well as Finland, Sweden, Georgia, and the EU. However, the Norwegian-born official also noted that its Asia-Pacific partners – such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea – have been invited as well, stating that the current security crisis has “global implications.”
The ministers will discuss new strategic concepts which will account for the military conflict in Ukraine, but will also include for the first time the issue of China’s “growing influence and coercive policies on the global stage which pose a systemic challenge to our security and to our democracies.”
“We see that China has been unwilling to condemn Russia’s aggression and has joined Moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path,” said Stoltenberg, urging that democracies must stand up for their values against “authoritarian powers.”
According to the US government-funded Freedom House, five of NATO's thirty members are not considered to be full democracies – Turkey, Hungary, Albania, North Macedonia & Montenegro.
He expressed hope that the bloc would be able to deepen its cooperation with its Asia-Pacific partners in areas such as “arms control, cyber, hybrid and technology.”
Since the start of Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine, Beijing has held off on taking a particular stance on the issue, calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict but refusing to condemn Moscow’s actions or join the sweeping economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the likes of the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, Japan, Australia, and other nations.
For the last few weeks, the US has increasingly been putting more pressure on China to “pick a side,” with Joe Biden warning Beijing of potential “consequences” and “costs” should China choose to back Russia in the Ukraine conflict, either militarily or by helping circumvent international sanctions.
[ RT ]
NATO plans to deepen its cooperation with partners in Asia as a response to a rising “security challenge” coming from China, which refuses to condemn Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine, the US-led bloc's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg revealed during a press conference on Tuesday.
He announced that the bloc will host foreign ministers from member states as well as Finland, Sweden, Georgia, and the EU. However, the Norwegian-born official also noted that its Asia-Pacific partners – such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea – have been invited as well, stating that the current security crisis has “global implications.”
The ministers will discuss new strategic concepts which will account for the military conflict in Ukraine, but will also include for the first time the issue of China’s “growing influence and coercive policies on the global stage which pose a systemic challenge to our security and to our democracies.”
“We see that China has been unwilling to condemn Russia’s aggression and has joined Moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path,” said Stoltenberg, urging that democracies must stand up for their values against “authoritarian powers.”
According to the US government-funded Freedom House, five of NATO's thirty members are not considered to be full democracies – Turkey, Hungary, Albania, North Macedonia & Montenegro.
He expressed hope that the bloc would be able to deepen its cooperation with its Asia-Pacific partners in areas such as “arms control, cyber, hybrid and technology.”
Since the start of Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine, Beijing has held off on taking a particular stance on the issue, calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict but refusing to condemn Moscow’s actions or join the sweeping economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the likes of the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, Japan, Australia, and other nations.
For the last few weeks, the US has increasingly been putting more pressure on China to “pick a side,” with Joe Biden warning Beijing of potential “consequences” and “costs” should China choose to back Russia in the Ukraine conflict, either militarily or by helping circumvent international sanctions.
[ RT ]
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The Journey in life is fraught with disappointment, resentment, regret and remorse beyond help and even consolation. Whatever it is, just have to face reality because nature dictates the Fate. Accept or not, no choice.
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Why pick on China?
ReplyDelete'I think that it is fair to say that these are all clear signs that the Empire of Hate and Lies has now declared total war on Russia, just short of overtly actually attacking Russian forces or Russia, of course. In fact, Russia and the Empire of Hate and Lies have been at war since at least 2013, and Russia had to make many concessions to the Empire simply because from 2013-2021 Russia did not have:
A military that could take on NATO and win. She does now.
The kind of advanced strategic deterrence systems (nuclear and conventional) she now has.
A stabilized southern axis (Middle-East, Caucasus, Central Asia) from which no threat can realistically come.
A legal case to justify the decision to openly intervene in the Ukraine
A society that would not crumble under the tremendous pressure of US PSYOPS
A society in which the 5th columnists, the 6th columnists, and the Atlantic Integrationist have been pretty much totally discredited.
An economy that could survive the kind of total economic war unleashed nowadays
A system of alliances Russia could count on (remember Lukashenko’s and Nazarbayev’s “multipolarity” of the mid-20s?)
Large enough stores of advanced weapons for a long campaign
The real and full support of China'
What should we expect?
'Sooner or later, the delusional and ignorant psychopaths which run the Empire of Hate and Lies will come to realize that far from breaking Russia, they committed collective economic, political, social, moral, spiritual, and, of course, military suicide and they will be left with *nothing* else to do that try a desperate military provocation. I hope that I am wrong, but I don’t see how the united West could de-escalate from the corner it painted itself into.
Both the USA and the EU are run not by individuals, but by a class (in the Marxist sense of the word) which we can conceptually call the “1%ers”. One percent seems small, but in the USA 1% is over 3 MILLION people, and in the EU this is almost 4,5 MILLION people. Throw in colonies like Japan, Australia, Taiwan, and others and we can see that it is reasonable to assume that there are about 10’000’000 very rich and very powerful people out there who want to see Russia dead and gone forever.
These people will NEVER be voted out of power. Oh sure, here and there, for a while, some will lose an election and an outsider might be voted in, but that is what economic sanctions are for: to punish those nations which vote for the “wrong” candidate (like Hungary just did).'
'We are 41 days into this horror and the end is nowhere near in sight, and remember that the real objective of Russia and China is not “just” to disarm and denazify the Nazi-occupied Ukraine, it is to completely change the European collective security architecture which, in turn, is the cornerstone of the Empire of Lies worldwide. This will most probably take several years unless the coming economic crisis is even much worse than I expect it to be (in my total ignorance of economic topics).
Conclusion:
The Empire of Lies already understands that it lost Banderastan, so it executed the Bucha massacre to change the narrative and trigger a TOTAL “Cancel Russia” war. The WWII Nazis used the term “final solution” and that is what the Bucha false flag signals: the decision by Uncle Shmuel to achieve a “final solution” to the “Russian problem”.
This is the West’s way to signal that it too is now entering into its own 2nd phase of the war.'
http://thesaker.is/the-true-importance-of-the-bucha-false-flag-a-crucial-change-of-narrative/
You have a very good insight.
ReplyDeleteYour views are most perfect.
I should even say that you are significantly significant.
I am banging on the same horse too.
First and foremost, isn't the USA and EU, by forcing countries to take sides, is not a case of questioning the right of countries to choose their own path? Why force China to take sides? Why punishing Pakistan with regime change for right of doing deals with Russia? Why now threatening India with consequences just because India is looking after it's own strategic interest?
ReplyDeleteStoltenberg should examine his own stand before trying to cure others with his own bad medicine.
I have just this to add:
ReplyDelete"if you cannot win a real war, win the imaginary one." That is what the US is doing since Vietnam. Doing proxy wars, staging false flags, supplying Nazis and terrorists with weapons--that, they are good at. Winning? Not really. Now, being primitive one-dimensional military "thinkers" they cannot even come up with believable lie and increasingly come across as desperate, which Nuland's voyage merely confirms. They love to think about themselves as very sophisticated and advanced, in reality they are primitive, uncultured and are crafty only at political machinations--this is the extent of their competencies. This is their "level"
They long ago lost the distinction between illusion and reality and continue to fight imaginary war, because they don't know how to fight a real one.'
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Andrei Raevsky Makes The Point...
That Bucha video has now come under scrutiny by many regarding it's authenticity as to timeline and culpability. Is this the reason why the Russian request for a UN investigation was blocked twice by the British?
ReplyDeleteOrdinarily the West would have jumped at the suggestion by the Russians, but why did they do the unthinkable of blocking the UN investigation. It does not make sense and raises suspicion.
Do watch what Brian Berletic had to say on The New Atlas video site and the comments that followed.
The USA and the West have no moral authority to accuse Russia of war crimes. What did the USA do in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria using carpet bombing, killing millions of innocent women and children? What did NATO do to Yugoslavia, carpet bombing it for 78 days and how many innocent women and children were killed? Putin said it long ago that if the USA and the West accuse others of doing it, they are the ones that did it themselves.
ReplyDeleteAnd that begs the question of what did the UN and ICC do about all that? They closed both their eyes completely and pretend as if nothing happens. The whole world knows the double standards they are adhering to and are thus no longer credible organisations. They only look after the interest of the decadent West.
Many Non-Western Countries Find Arrogant US Repugnant
ReplyDeleteThe US warned India once again. Brian Deese, White House top economic adviser, claimed on Wednesday that the consequences of New Delhi's "more explicit strategic alignment" with Moscow would be "significant and long-term."
What a bullying manner! This is an open threat by the US toward India on the latter's own business. When it comes to the Ukraine crisis, the US is blatantly displaying its hegemonic mentality - either you are with the US, or against the US. This echoes exactly the same slogan of George W. Bush, made in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Even if India has not "aligned" with Russia, and has kept a relatively balanced position during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US does not buy it. Remaining neutral makes no sense to the US. What Washington wants from New Delhi is completely standing by the US side.
The US is afraid that ties among China, Russia and India may further develop due to the Ukraine crisis, although systematic cooperation of the three countries is not rare.
Moreover, the US expects that everything goes well in terms of the Quad summit, which is scheduled to be held in Japan, tentatively by the end of June. Yet, if India does not make a statement in line with the US expectation, the summit may hardly take place. Constant warnings over "consequences" against India emerged from the US, revealing Washington's anxiety.
Before Deese's remarks, the US has already warned India more than once against constructing alternate payment mechanisms with Russia or buying more oil from Russia. Yet the threats turned out to be in vain, as India benefits from its ties with Russia, which can't be substituted by the US.
Also, India's response mirrors an increasingly obvious trend - the US has underestimated the antipathy the rest of the world holds for it. Not only India, but the majority of the general public in China and Latin American countries and other developing world have not taken sides with the US in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, even if the US believes it is standing on the moral high ground. They do not support sanctioning Russia.
Quite a few countries have long been bullied by the US. They have long developed a rebellious psychology. This time, the more sanctions Washington imposes on Russia due to the conflict, the more aversion the US will have to face.
The US has long believed it masters superior strength, values, and civilization, which in turn has given birth to its overbearing arrogance. As a result, when interacting with non-Western countries, the US either coerces them or issues warnings to them. Since Washington is used to dealing with others from a position of strength, its relations with other countries have never been on an equal footing.
That's why the world has been witnessing the US talking about the so-called democracy while it makes dictatorial orders toward other countries.
The resentment from non-Western countries toward such hegemonic arrogance has long been lurking. It is now surfacing during the ongoing Ukraine crisis, along with the real status of the US in international society - It has imposed sanctions on Russia yet has failed to reach expected effects; It claims to be on the justified side, but most countries believe it is the US-led NATO that has turned Ukraine into a pawn, threw it under the bus, and worse, attempted to prolong the war; It pushed India, one of its closest partners, to take sides, but only gained India's cold shoulder.
Since the outbreak of the conflict, Indian people seem to have been fed up with the US putting pressure on or threatening India. Many of them asked: What kind of a partner is this? New Delhi's current balanced diplomacy is thus warmly welcomed by the Indian public. This is a sign of their repugnance toward Washington.
Today, the US would be self-defeating if it stubbornly believes that whoever it cozies up to would feel honored and dance to its tune. Gone is the time when US warnings work.
On the development of the war in Ukraine, many people are yearning to know why the Ukraine Military is sacrificing so much to extricate someone or something from the site of the steel manufacturing facility in Mariupol, losing five helicopters and personnel on board in the process and still not succeeding.
ReplyDeleteWhat is inside the steel plant must be someone very important and will implicate some states, or some very incriminating evidence that they do not want to fall into Russian hands.
In the meantime, using scientific analysis of the videos, evidence are emerging that will discredit the Bucha video. It is going to be exposed as a false flag.
Bucha pics: You can see from multiple angles that these civilians were carrying emergency food rations distributed by Russian forces before the troops withdrew. These victims were almost certainly killed by Ukrainian nationalists for being "saboteurs" who "collaborated" with Russia.
ReplyDeleteJUST IN - Finland is preparing to apply for #NATO membership this spring, according to local media reports.
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