March 24, 2022

As NATO leaders gathered on Thursday to discuss the Ukraine crisis, the US has been mulling   new sanctions on Russia to further pressure it. While the military alliance plans to boost military deployments in eastern Europe, it also targeted China - an extraterritorial third-party that has been calling for peaceful dialogue to de-escalate the situation - and continued to distort its role, which, some Chinese experts said, would only fan the flames, resulting in a prolonged conflict and a growing humanitarian crisis that heavily weighs on Europe. 

In a statement, NATO continues to condemn Russia and calls on Belarus to end its complicity. The statement also calls on China to "abstain from supporting Russia's war effort."

23 years ago on March 24, NATO started its 78 days of bombing Yugoslavia, which killed thousands of civilians, and NATO starting its summit this year on the same date to strengthen its military deployments and to further arm Ukraine with weapons in the name of "peace" is truly ironic and hypocritical, said Chinese analysts.

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