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".
In particular Biden, in the press conference after the NATO summit in Brussels said that Russia and China are trying to sow discord in transatlantic solidarity and added: "I will be clear with Putin that there are areas in which we can collaborate if he chooses to do so" calling Russian President Vladimir Putin "brilliant and tough".
The US is not looking for a conflict with Russia but will respond if Moscow continues its hostile activities, the president specified, adding that he will make it clear with Vladimir Putin that "we can collaborate if he chooses to do so" on mutual interests or "we will respond in kind" .
From Moscow, Russian presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov makes it known that it is unlikely that agreements will be reached at the next Russia-US summit in Geneva. Ushakov added that he looks at the top "with practical optimism". "I'm not sure any agreement will be reached, we'll see, I don't know. I look at the meeting with practical optimism, not great optimism," he said. Ushakov noted that "Americans tend to ignore agreements reached under the previous administration, especially if this administration was dominated by another political party." "The most important thing, and it wasn't easy, is that the summit agenda was agreed, we even discussed in advance the order of issues that the leaders will focus on," he added. "Currently, there remains only one non-agreed issue, concerning the final documents and the final document of the summit. In this regard, our colleagues in the Foreign Ministry are holding negotiations ", Tass reports.
