NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is condemning China’s communist regime for “bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan.”
During a visit to Tokyo on Jan. 31, Stoltenberg said that it was a “critical moment for NATO and for Japan,” and warned that China and Russia are “leading an authoritarian pushback against international rules-based order.”
He further stressed that Japan and other democratic nations should work together with NATO to prevent the erosion of the international rules-based order at China’s hands, and that the trans-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions were “deeply interconnected.”
“China is substantially building up its military forces, including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan, trying to control critical infrastructure and spreading misinformation about NATO and the war in Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said….