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NATO pivots to highlight Chinese 'challenges' for 1st time

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US President Joe Biden (C) flanked by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (C/R) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (C/L) sits with South Korea's President Yoon Suk-Yeol (L) and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) during a tri-lateral meeting MADRID (AP) - NATO has for the first time singled out China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, warning about its growing military ambitions, confrontational rhetoric toward Taiwan and other neighbors, and increasingly close ties to Russia.While Russia’s war against Ukraine has dominated discussions at the NATO summit, China earned a place Wednesday among the Western alliance’s most worrying security concerns."China is substantially building up its military forces, including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors, threatening Taiwan ...

monitoring and controlling its own citizens through advanced technology, and spreading Russian lies and disinformation," Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said after presenting NATO’s ten-year Strategic Concept.RELATED: Finland, Sweden closer to joining NATO after Turkey drops opposition, leader says"China is not our adversary," Stoltenberg said, "but we must be clear-eyed about the serious challenges it represents."The strategic document directed its harshest language at Russia, but the mere mention of China was significant; the 2010 document did not discuss China.

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