Starting from June 28, NATO will hold a three-day summit in Madrid. Although the biggest focus topic is the Ukraine crisis , the topic about China is more prominent on the agenda than in the past.
One of the manifestations is that Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand were invited to attend for the first time, indicating that NATO is determined to establish a closer security partnership with countries such as Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, and the target is of course China. The second manifestation of is . This summit will mention China again in the statement. China's strategic positioning will be clearer and its strategic intentions will no longer be concealed.
The current crisis in Ukraine continues to worsen, and the whole of Europe is shrouded in the shadow of war. NATO still does not know how to reflect on this situation, and is trying to set the company on fire and push Asia into a pit of fire. This shows that NATO has no intention of learning from its own disastrous expansion policy, nor does it have any intention of learning from the Ukraine crisis. It will still make mistakes after mistakes.
NATO has been trying to shift its strategic focus to Asia for several years. The initiator is the United States, and the country that leads the way is Japan. Without Japan's role, NATO's strategy towards China will not be implemented. Driven by the United States and Japan, the 2019 NATO summit mentioned China in the statement for the first time. At that time, it was still covert and only wrote one sentence, which characterized China as both an opportunity and a challenge. But from then on, step by step, his true colors were revealed.
Starting in 2020, NATO has identified Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand as Pacific partners, and has officially targeted China as its strategic target. By 2021, NATO's strategy towards China will become clearer. The summit statement slandered China as posing a systemic challenge to the international order and international rules, accused China of implementing an offloading policy towards other countries, and accused China of carrying out military modernization without transparency.
And at this year's summit, NATO will once again increase its confrontational nature and define China as a challenger to Western values, Western interests and Western security in accordance with the United States' intentions. This means that its subsequent policies and actions will change. Have to be more aggressive. How should China respond? My opinion is that the first priority is to safeguard core interests as the strategic axis, to dismantle the US Indo-Pacific strategy as the main direction of attack, and to stabilize the surrounding security environment as the foothold. The second is that should continue to strengthen strategic coordination between China and Russia, so that Russia can improve the security environment facing Europe without strategic concerns, thereby containing NATO and preventing it from leaving Europe.
Of course, I say this for several reasons. First, the Ukraine crisis is not limited to Ukraine . Since the war is still going on and will last for a long time, the post-war order will also be difficult to restore, so there is always a spillover effect. The possibility of spreading to the surrounding areas of Ukraine in various ways exists.
Lithuania caused trouble over the Kaliningrad issue. It is still fermenting. It seems calm now, but in fact there is an undercurrent. Russia cannot just swallow this bitter pill, and it is impossible for Lithuania to block Kaliningrad in disguise. Trump's behavior has become the norm. This is a time bomb. If this bomb is not dismantled, NATO will not be able to rest for a day.
In the border areas between Lithuania and Belarus , and in the border areas between Belarus and Poland , the situation is also quietly evolving. On June 25, Belarusian President Lukashenko went to Moscow again to discuss this issue with Putin. He pointed out that NATO fighter planes carrying nuclear weapons have been flying into Belarus recently and asked Putin to help Belarus adopt symmetrical response measures. Putin announced on the spot that Russia's Iskander tactical missile system will arrive in Belarus within a few months. This missile can carry nuclear warheads and can launch ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. Russia will also help The Belarusian Air Force is modernizing to equip its fighters with the capability of nuclear strikes against . So what NATO is facing is definitely not just the crisis in Ukraine. NATO's eastern flank area, that is, the three Baltic countries and Poland, are full of crises. These countries are very restless. With the protection of NATO, they are confident and ready to attack at any time. It may cause major troubles.
Lithuania's deliberate provocation of Russia on the Kaliningrad issue is an extremely reckless and extremely dangerous act, and several other NATO countries are actually ready to take action. This is the result of NATO's constant instigation, and NATO will ultimately bear the consequences. At this moment, NATO continues to play with fire and is still thinking about dealing with China. Its arrogance has grown to a very crazy level. The only result of this is that China and Russia will understand the situation clearly and must cooperate closely and interact with each other. Supporting and cooperating with each other stopped NATO's eastward expansion process in the quagmire of the Ukraine crisis.
