{"id":847589,"date":"2025-05-11T23:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/chinas-military-expansion-is-staggering-and-the-world-cannot-afford-to-be-naive-about-beijings-intentions-nato-chief-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T04:11:53","slug":"chinas-military-expansion-is-staggering-and-the-world-cannot-afford-to-be-naive-about-beijings-intentions-nato-chief-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/chinas-military-expansion-is-staggering-and-the-world-cannot-afford-to-be-naive-about-beijings-intentions-nato-chief-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s military expansion is &#8216;staggering&#8217; and the world cannot afford to be &#8216;naive&#8217; about Beijing&#8217;s intentions, NATO chief warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nato\/index.html\" id=\"mol-95ac2a30-1476-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">NATO<\/a> must not be &#8216;naive&#8217; about <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\" id=\"mol-95b1f690-1476-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">China<\/a> in light of <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/beijing\/index.html\" id=\"mol-95b15a50-1476-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">Beijing<\/a>&#8216;s &#8216;staggering&#8217; expansion of its armed forces, the alliance&#8217;s chief has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Rutte said the country&#8217;s substantial investments in its defence capabilities must act as a wake-up call for Western nations who have not taken the threat seriously so far.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO Secretary General also claimed that China&#8217;s increasing support for <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/russia-ukraine-conflict\/index.html\" id=\"mol-95ba5b00-1476-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">Russia<\/a>, as well as their links with <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/north_korea\/index.html\" id=\"mol-95b503d0-1476-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">North Korea<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\" id=\"mol-95b32f10-1476-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">Iran<\/a>, shows the renewed importance of the Euro-Atlantic partnership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;China is <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10922557\/China-vows-support-Putin-Russias-sovereignty-security.html\">supporting Russia&#8217;s efforts.<\/a> China is building up its armed forces, including its navy, at a rapid pace,&#8217; Rutte told reporters at\u00a0the Japanese navy port of Yokosuka today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We cannot be naive, and we really have to work together, assess what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When you look at the build-up of the defence industrial base in China, when you look at the fact that they have now more NATO ships sailing than the US, that they will <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10154745\/The-pace-China-moving-stunning-Americas-No-2-ranking-military-officer-said.html\">go in to 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030<\/a>, it&#8217;s absolutely clear that we cannot be na\u00efve about China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We cannot be naive about China, and that&#8217;s the reason why we work so intensely together with, indeed, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/japan\/index.html\" id=\"mol-408ba510-1478-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">Japan<\/a> and Korea, but also Australia, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/new_zealand\/index.html\" id=\"mol-408c4150-1478-11f0-b9c7-4fbe10c0b647\">New Zealand<\/a>. And the importance now is that we that we deepen that cooperation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He later told the Japan Times: &#8216;The build-up of their armed forces and investments in their defence industry, and in their defence capabilities, is staggering.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The NATO Secretary General claimed that China&#8217;s increasing support for Russia , as well as their links with North Korea and Iran , shows the renewed importance of the Euro-Atlantic partnership<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rutte (L) visited the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force&#8217;s Yokosuka Base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo, Japan\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Servicemen of the Chinese Armed Forces march during a Victory Day military parade in Russia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Japan considers China as a threat in the region and has in recent years accelerated military build-up, including preparing to acquire strike-back capability with long-range cruise missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today he told Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani: &#8216;NATO and Japan share the same values and we face many of the same challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;China, North Korea and Russia are stepping up their military exercises and their cooperation, undermining global stability, and that means what happens in the Euro-Atlantic <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-12515357\/If-Putin-Kim-Jong-want-disaster-awaits-Politics-lecturer-EDWARD-HOWELL-warns-North-Korea-cosying-Russia-East-Asia-risks-powder-keg-global-conflict.html\">matters for the Indo-Pacific and vice versa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A stronger Japan-NATO cooperation is necessary in an increasingly dangerous world.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>NATO has already strengthened ties with Tokyo in recent years, with Rutte calling for bonds to be deepened further in light of the Chinese threat.<\/p>\n<p>This could come in the form of information sharing and cooperation on defence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have to move beyond &#8230; joint declarations &#8230; let&#8217;s make it practical,&#8217; Rutte said last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks China&#8217;s\u00a0People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) launched\u00a0large-scale military drills around Taiwan &#8211; a territory it <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6601455\/Taiwan-holds-live-fire-exercises-following-China-threats.html\" class>wants to control fully<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; without warning.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today the former Dutch prime minister said NATO is concerned about the operations and is monitoring them &#8216;very closely.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exercises have prompted condemnation from the US, UK and other G7 nations, who fear Beijing are stepping up their military pressure on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour government have been accused of failing to stand up to Chinese aggression, both on British soil and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Luke De Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China told MailOnline:\u00a0&#8216;It would be good to see some of this realism creep into the UK&#8217;s rhetoric on China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Rutte is correct that Beijing&#8217;s behaviour threatens world peace, and global economic stability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The democratic world isn&#8217;t even close to meaningful deterrence, and the UK is further behind than most.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NATO&#8217;s Secretary General Mark Rutte looks at military equipment on the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force&#8217;s (JMSDF) stealth frigate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In recent weeks China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan &#8211; a territory it wants to control fully &#8211; without warning<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Military delegates arrive at the closing meeting of the Third Session of the 14th National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC) of China in Beijing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>China is also threatening the West through their continued backing for Russia, Rutte said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Let&#8217;s be totally clear about this. We know that they help and support the Russians warfare through war effort, through sanction circumvention, through delivery of dual use goods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So they are an integral part of the war effort, and now North Korea sending its soldiers to Europe to fight a war here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We know that the Russians are repaying them, not only with money, but also with technology, which, in the end, is also posing a threat to the United States, and to the whole of NATO territory and to the Indo Pacific.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Maribel Fleishman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14583521\/China-military-expansion-staggering-NATO-warns.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=1490\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO must not be &#8216;naive&#8217; about China in light of Beijing&#8217;s &#8216;staggering&#8217; expansion of its armed forces, the alliance&#8217;s chief has warned. Mark Rutte said the country&#8217;s substantial investments in its defence capabilities must act as a wake-up call for Western nations who have not taken the threat seriously so far. The NATO Secretary General<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22042,29],"tags":[11476],"class_list":{"0":"post-847589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chinas","8":"category-military","9":"tag-bitcoins"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}