Biden compacts NATO against China and the Dragon replies, 'slander'

After the G7 in Cornwall, the President of the United States Joe Biden called the leaders of NATO together, compacting them on an idea of ​​an Alliance of Democracies as an alternative to authoritarian regimes, which like that of the Dragon "pursue coercive policies and do not share democratic values ​​and respect for rights ".

And today's EU-US summit promises to follow the same trajectory, in a substantial relaunch of transatlantic relations that see the European Union and the United States also find solutions to the customs war, a legacy of the Trumpian era, and go hand in hand in the fight against climate changes.

Of particular concern is China's military expansionism, including the development of its nuclear arsenal, "increasingly frequent cyber-attacks", disinformation activity and the use of sophisticated technologies, including artificial intelligence. China, which only 18 months ago was treated as a marginal dossier (the issue was first addressed at the 2019 summit, in a cautious statement), thus bursts into the limelight as the epicenter of "systemic challenges". Because Beijing is getting closer and closer, threateningly to the West, also through military collaboration with the other major source of concern, Moscow, by participating in its exercises in the Euro-Atlantic area. "And this is the Biden-era Alliance he cannot allow it.

Meanwhile, China has accused NATO of "creating clashes" after the agreement reached by the Western allies on a joint action to contrast Beijing's often aggressive policies. A note from the Chinese Embassy to the European Union urged the Atlantic Alliance to "see China's development rationally, to stop exaggerating the various forms of 'Chinese threat theory' and not to use legitimate interests and rights. China's lawyers as an excuse to manipulate the group's policy. " At yesterday's NATO annual summit in Brussels, China ended up on the list of security "risks" for the first time.

The NATO accusations are to be considered a "slander of China's peaceful development, an error in assessing the international situation and its own role, and is the continuation of a Cold War mentality and the group's political psychology".