Born and Biden against Russia and China, Beijing’s reply

NATO “exaggerates”, “we are not a systemic threat”. The representation of China in the EU thus replied to the statement released yesterday at the end of the summit of the Atlantic Alliance, which for the first time mentioned China, calling it “a systemic threat”. In a note posted on its website, the Beijing representation asks to stop exaggerating “the Chinese threat theory”, accusing NATO of “slandering” Chinese peaceful developments, denouncing “a Cold War mentality”. But then he warns: “We do not represent a systemic threat to anyone, but if someone wants to pose a systemic threat to us, we will not remain indifferent.” American President Joe Biden also spoke yesterday about relations with China and also with Russia. “Over the past two years there has been growing recognition that we have new challenges ahead of us. There is Russia, which is not acting consistently with what we had hoped for, as is China,” Biden pointed out earlier. of a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, during the Atlantic Alliance summit in Brussels. ” We do not want a conflict with Russia ”, Biden later specified in a conference at the end of the summit, but ‘ ‘America is back’ ‘and will continue to’ ‘defend democratic values”.