June 15, 2021 NATO leaders on Monday announced that China is a permanent security challenge and is working to undermine global discipline.
In a summit statement, the leaders said that China’s goals and Effective practices present systemic challenges for areas of international order and coalition security.
Although the 30 heads of state and government refrained from calling China a rival, they expressed concern that their coercive policies, their blatant rumors, were the use of misinformation that led to them. China is modernizing its armed forces.
NATO leaders called on Beijing to uphold its international commitments and act responsibly in the international system.
The statement came as President Joe Biden sought to persuade allies to speak more unitedly about China’s human rights record, its trade practices and its military’s increasingly claimant behavior. I have accelerated which has disqualified US allies in the Pacific. Biden, who arrived in the UK after three days of consultations with the Group of Seven allies, called for G7 talks, which he said were forced labor exercises and other human rights abuses. Uighur affects Muslims and other ethnic minorities in the western province of Xinjiang.
The president said he was satisfied with the talks, although there were differences among allies over whether to criticize Beijing. The new Brussels talks make it clear that NATO countries will join China in defending the alliance’s security interests.
On Monday, the Chinese embassy in the UK issued a statement saying that the G7 communications had deliberately defamed China and arbitrarily interfered in China’s internal affairs and thwarted the nefarious intentions of some countries like the United States. However, the Chinese government did not immediately respond to NATO’s new statement.
Shortly after arriving at the alliance’s headquarters for the first NATO summit of his presidency, Biden sat down with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to Article 5 of the Alliance’s Charter. It has been made clear that attacking one member is an attack on all, with a collective response. “We consider Article 5 a sacred obligation,” Biden said. I want NATO to know that it is the United States. This is a sharp change from the last four years, when Trump declared the alliance obsolete. And he complained that it had allowed global liberal countries to spend less on military defense at the expense of the United States.
Biden made a statement saying, “We are meeting at a critical time of our unity, increasing geopolitical rivalry, regional instability, terrorism, cyber attacks and climate change. No nation and no continent can meet these challenges alone. Europe and North America are not alone.” Biden, who arrived in Brussels after a three-day consultation with Group of Seven leaders in England, was warmly welcomed by fellow leaders. The Prime Minister of Belgium, Alexander de Crow, said that in the presence of Biden, there was an emphasis on renewing the transatlantic partnership. De Crow said NATO allies want to go beyond four years under the Trump administration and fight among member states.
Welcoming Biden, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said the summit was a continuation of tomorrow’s G7 summit and aimed at rebuilding key US alliances that had been weakened by his previous administration. Is part of the process. This is President Biden’s first visit to Europe, while Trump’s first foreign trip as President was to Saudi Arabia. Trump routinely barred other NATO countries from spending significantly on defense and even threatened to expel the United States from the world’s largest security organization, even from one of the key principles of the alliance, the NATO Charter. He also questioned the provision of mutual defense.
When the members of the Alliance 2019 last met for a summit in England in December 2019, Trump slammed the headlines, calling Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau two-faced and French President Emmanuel Macron dirty. Had taken Trump’s gossip on the hot mic has sparked outrage over negative comments about Trudeau.
The White House said the talks, signed by coalition members at the end of the NATO summit, are expected to include language about updating Article 5 to prevent major cyber attacks by the US government. And there’s a growing concern between businesses around it and a series of hacks targeted by hackers based in China around the world. According to White House National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan, the update will make it clear that in response to a cyber-attack, if a coalition member needs technical or intelligence assistance, he or she will insist on mutual defense assistance
According to the White House, the president began his day with separate meetings with the leaders of the Baltic states, the eastern part of NATO, as well as the leaders of Poland and Romania.
Biden’s itinerary in Europe has been set up so that he can meet with G7 leaders and then NATO allies in Brussels before his expected meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday. And with both summits, Biden’s goal was to consult with European allies on efforts to counter China’s and Russia’s provocative actions.
Biden will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday on the sidelines of the summit. Biden has known Erdogan for years, but their relationship has often been controversial. During his campaign, Biden angered Turkish officials by describing Erdogan as independent.
In April, Biden angered Ankara by announcing that the Ottoman-era genocide and the deportation of Armenians were genocide.
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