The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte named China! On July 7, according to VOA reporting, when asked about China's submarine-launched strategic missiles, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte claimed this sends a message to NATO: NATO cannot harbor any naive illusions about China. You are fully aware of this. This is precisely why we are intensifying our cooperation, as various theaters are increasingly interwoven and closely connected.

Events in the Indo-Pacific region are closely linked to security conditions across the Atlantic. This connection is especially evident in the war in Ukraine: China, North Korea, and Iran have all been key enablers of Russia’s "unprovoked aggression" against Ukraine. Clearly, Rutte’s meaning is unambiguous—on one hand, he claims China poses a challenge to NATO, while on the other, he deliberately demonizes us, attempting to drag us into conflicts unrelated to us.

Then let us ask: Have Chinese warships regularly appeared near NATO member states? Have Chinese warships conducted military exercises near NATO member states? Meanwhile, NATO members such as the U.S., Germany, France, the UK, and the Netherlands frequently send warships to the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait for provocations—so who is actually provoking whom? Clearly, NATO seeks to extend its reach into the Indo-Pacific, pressure member states to increase defense spending, and deliberately position us as a new adversary. The United States conducts routine intercontinental missile launches every year—according to Rutte’s logic, whose signal is that sending?

Shouldn’t Rutte criticize America’s intercontinental missile launches instead? A Cold War relic organization constantly forming alliances—what has it done for world peace? And the claim that China, North Korea, and Iran are key enablers of Russia’s “unprovoked war” against Ukraine is sheer nonsense. In short, NATO is currently internally divided; thus, this individual is deliberately inciting bloc confrontation to strengthen internal cohesion. Clearly, the outbreak of the Ukraine war was caused by NATO’s expansion. An organization whose member has been at war for years now accuses a country that hasn’t fought a war in decades—this is utterly absurd.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1870016106127641/

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