Chicoms concerned about NATO
A milestone convocation of NATO leaders and four U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific has drawn an ominous warning from China.
“China will closely follow the developments,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian said Thursday. "We will not sit idly by and watch if anything should happen that may harm China’s interests.”
"I advise NATO to stop spreading false facts against China and [stop] provocative speech and acts and to not soil Asia and the whole world,” Chinese Ambassador Xing Haiming told a Seoul audience gathered to commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties with South Korea, which attended the NATO summit.
Those diplomatic growls continue a series of statements that indicate the animosity festering between China and “the political West,” as senior NATO officials sometimes refer to the U.S.-led network of democracies. The dueling remarks lay bare the extent to which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has corroded the relationship between China and the Western democracies, such that both sides now speak of the other as a threat to export conflict into their respective regions.
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I suspect the Chicoms are worried about the Western response to Russian aggression in Ukraine and fear a similar response should China attack Taiwan. The use of the term "false facts" is also weird. The normal way of challenging asserted factual material is to suggest they are "false stories."
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