Mark Rutte points to the Chinese-Russia alliance. The NATO general secretary has warned on Wednesday that the risk of Beijing and Moscow is currently being able to agree to coordinate An attack against Taiwan, at the time of an offensive against territory of the Atlantic Alliance.
“The risk of Xi Jinping is growing, before he throws an attack against Taiwan, doing first A call to your junior partner in all thisVladimir Putin, to ask him to keep us busy in Europe, “Routte said in a press conference after meeting with the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz.
In a recent interview with the American newspaper The New York TimesRutte said that Xi Jinping can call Putin to tell him, before an eventual attack on Taiwan, “I’m going to do this and I need you to keep them occupied in Europe by attacking NATO territory.”
“Our evaluation is as follows, China is increasing their armed forces, they now have more ships than the United States, and they will have more for 2030, and now they have thousands of nuclear heads, All this is not to organize military parades in Beijing, it is to use it “, and” we know that the ambition that China has is somehow, take control of Taiwan“Routte added.
The general secretary of the Atlantic Alliance responded thus when asked about the internationalization of the Ukraine War and the scenarios that consider in NATO about the international behavior of China. “The transatlantic and indopacific region are being overlapped, with North Korea participating in the war of aggression against Ukraine.” Meanwhile, China favors Moscow “With the evasion of sanctions and the delivery of double -use goods while Iran does the same with their drone technology,” Routte said.
Before what the secretary general described as Growing interconnection of Russian threatbecause in Ukraine North Korean soldiers participate with the Russians and Moscow uses dozens of Iranian -made Shahed drones, and China’s aspirations about Taiwan, Rutte claimed the agreement reached in the Hague to carry out the expenditure in defense at 5%NATO.
“As the Chancellor says, we do not reach the 5 % goal to make anyone happy,” but “we do it because we know that the threat is there,” said Routte, who alluded to the commitments of the head of the German government, who wants to reach 3.5 % of net expend strengthen our collective security“Merz said.
