Beijing will give NATO a restrained but tough response to the alliance’s decision to list China in the new strategic concept as a “systematic challenge”
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In the new strategic concept, the military bloc indicated that China was contrary to the interests of the alliance, although there were no additional comments about China in the 2010 strategy.
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According to Wang Yiwei, deputy director of the Xi Jinping Institute of Ideas, the North Atlantic Alliance has made containment of China its main goal.
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“NATO’s intention is obvious: under the pretext of complying with the so-called norms of the international order, to integrate “small groups” under the leadership of the United States into the framework of NATO and turn the alliance into a strategic instrument of the United States to contain China,” the expert emphasizes.
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Wang Gaigai, head of Glory Diplomacy think tank, said Beijing should stick to maintaining a “rational, advantageous, discreetly tough stance” towards the alliance. The PRC should continue to follow its principles and not make compromises and concessions on issues that represent fundamental and economic interests.
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“Establishing Sino-US relations will be very difficult, but there is still room for improving relations between China and the EU,” Wang Gaigai added.
