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Islamabad: China has warned that any attempt of \u2018bloc confrontation\u2019 in Asia pacific will \u2018trigger firm opposition from regional countries\u2019. The reaction comes as Joe Biden is about to embark on his European trip to use the G7 and NATO to meet allies to jointly counter China.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in his media briefing said that as the world’s largest military alliance led by the US, \u2018NATO is a tool for the US to maintain hegemony and manipulate a security pattern in Europe\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNATO tried to copy the pattern of bloc confrontation in Europe in the Asia-Pacific region, which is very dangerous and will trigger firm opposition from regional countries,\u201d Wenbin was quoted by Global Times. Stoltenberg said that he expects allies will state that \u2018China poses some challenges to our values, our interests, and our security.” US, GT report said, is seeking to extend its reach into Asia to cooperate with the US’ China strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GT report said that analysts have warned that the \u2018global expansion of NATO will make the alliance more fragmented, and the troubles may cripple the alliance\u2019. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Islamabad: China has warned that any attempt of \u2018bloc confrontation\u2019 in Asia pacific will \u2018trigger firm opposition from regional countries\u2019. The reaction comes as Joe Biden is about to embark on his European trip to use the G7 and NATO to meet allies to jointly counter China. Wang Wenbin, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,396,73],"tags":[192,74],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-latest","category-security","tag-china","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>Earlier NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg while commenting on the NATO summit had said that it \u2018will address China in their new Strategic Concept for NATO, while welcoming leaders of NATO’s Asia-Pacific partners – Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea – to the summit.
\u201cNATO don’t regard China as an adversary but we need to realize the rise of China.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea will be part of the meeting for the first time during Biden\u2019s trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n