Posted on 04/02/2019 7:48:11 PM PDT by caww
China is gaining the capability to pose a critical threat to NATO, U.S. officials warned on the eve of an alliance summit in Washington.
“NATO is now assessing what China is doing,” Kay Bailey Hutchison, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, told reporters Tuesday evening in Washington. "We are assessing risk. We’re much more active in doing so with China.”
The results of that assessment could presage a new eastern focus for a security bloc that formed in 1949 with the goal of deterring the Soviet Union aggression against European and North American powers. But Chinese espionage and economic influence could undermine NATO in a variety of ways, U.S. officials worry.
State Mike Pompeo has launched a high-profile effort to discourage European allies from partnering with Chinese tech giants such as Huawei, which are pioneering the next generation of wireless technology.
“So if a country is investing in the 5G infrastructure that could interrupt our NATO communications or, again, have our NATO communications be distorted or disrupted, that is a very serious issue for NATO,” Hutchison said.
China is also using unconventional tactics to gain conventional naval strength. Italy agreed to join China’s vaunted Belt and Road Initiative, an infrastructure investment plan that U.S. officials regard as a “predatory” strategy to purchase political influence and even sovereignty in strategically significant areas
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NATO should have been disbanded 25 years ago.
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Those pu$$ys won’t do a thing. Pathetic.
We haven’t been doing much either.
Until Trump China basically had it’s way on everything.
Hopefully that’s changing.
ALBANIA is in NATO.
Let that sink in.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization looking for a reason to mess with East Asia. Lousy fit.
I’m hoping as well. They are patient. Just waiting for our country to go all commie. Then they don’t have to fire a shot.
An obsolete bureaucracy looking for new mission.
Maybe China will invade Poland.
Pull the plug on this subsidized euro-playpen.
Let that sink in.
Trump suggested Brazil might be allowed to join NATO. Let that sink in.
Yep. NATO is generally the Anglo-Saxons + a bunch of useless leeches. We should have left and brought the boys home when the Cold War ended.
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