Faced with a newly aggressive Russia, NATO leaders on Wednesday outlined a muscular new vision that names Moscow as the military alliance\u2019s primary adversary but also, for the first time, declares China to be a strategic \u201cchallenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a fundamental shift for an alliance that was born in the Cold War but came to view a post-Soviet Russia as a potential ally, and did not focus on China at all.<\/p>\n
But that was before Feb. 24, when Russian forces poured across the border into Ukraine, and Chinese leaders pointedly did not join in the global condemnation that followed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deepening strategic partnership between the People\u2019s Republic of China and the Russian Federation and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order run counter to our values and interests,\u201d NATO leaders said in a new mission statement<\/a> issued during their summit in Madrid.<\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Faced with a newly aggressive Russia, NATO leaders on Wednesday outlined a muscular new vision that names Moscow as the military alliance\u2019s primary adversary but also, for the first time, declares China to be a strategic \u201cchallenge.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/9zNdpTIxO1<\/a><\/p>\n — The New York Times (@nytimes) June 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n