June 14, 2021

US President Joe Biden will continue his anti-China roadshows among US' allies at the key summits during his ongoing European tour including the upcoming US-EU summit, said Chinese experts after a communiqué from the NATO summit issued on Monday described China as presenting "systemic challenges." It also came after the Group of Seven (G7) summit was held in the UK, in which multiple China-related issues like Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan and COVID-19 origin issues were found in the joint communiqué. 

Chinese experts warned that the NATO summit on Monday will serve as a wind vane of how the US-led NATO will adjust under the core task of suppressing China and Russia, while in the bigger picture within the EU, the divergences between the US and EU countries are unlikely to be mended. 

The NATO Summit Communiqué issued on Monday noted that China's growing influence and international policies can present challenges that NATO needs to address together. It also listed a number of challenges it believed China has presented including accusing China of expanding its nuclear arsenal, being opaque in its publicly declared military-civil fusion strategy and cooperating militarily with Russia.

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