China Not an Enemy, but NATO Must Face Its Growing Military and Rise of Its Global Influence: NATO Chief

China Not an Enemy, but NATO Must Face Its Growing Military and Rise of Its Global Influence: NATO Chief
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference after a meeting of The North Atlantic Council at Ambassadorial level at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on Jan. 6, 2020. Virginia Mayo/AP Photo
Ella Kietlinska
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NATO does not consider China a “new enemy or adversary’ but its rise “is fundamentally changing the global balance of power’ and NATO “has to address the consequences” of it, especially to the security, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during the event on June 8 to launch NATO 2030 initiative, to make NATO capable to adapt to the changing world.
Stoltenberg was tasked by NATO leaders convened at the NATO Summit in London last year to lead the development of a proposal for strengthening NATO’s political dimension. He appointed a group of ten experts to work on this project.