The China Ministry of Defense said on Thursday (26) that NATO is “a Cold War product” that “provokes wars everywhere” after representatives from the Atlantic alliance countries have criticized “Chinese destabilizing activities in the Taiwan Strait and the Southern China Sea.
Military spokesman Zhang Xiagang declared today at the Chinese Ministry of Defense’s monthly press conference that “NATO is a Cold War product and the largest military alliance in the world.”
Still according to the Chinese spokesman, NATO is “a true war machine that sows conflicts and causes wars everywhere.”
The spokesman stated that the organization “exceeded the geographical scope stipulated in its own treaty” and expressed Beijing’s “opposition” for using China as an excuse to advance to East of the Asia Pacific region. “
“The development of China’s military power focuses exclusively on the protection of its national sovereignty, security and development interests,” said Zhang, noting that Beijing’s National Defense Policy is “defensive nature”.
The statement of the XI Jinping regime comes after the G7 Foreign Ministers agreed on Wednesday, on the banks of the NATO summit in The Hague, to emphasize the importance of “maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait”, as well as deepening cooperation “in the face of China’s destructional actions in the Southern China.”
