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An accident waiting to happen: NATO looks to Asia : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 12/7/2023NATO has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of US power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability.
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"Such views have also pleased former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, whose waspish ire has also been trained on the NATO Secretary-General. In his latest statement, Stoltenberg was condemnedas "the supreme fool" of "the international stage". "Stoltenberg by instinct and policy, is simply an accident on its way to happen". In thinking that "China should be superintended by the West and strategically circumscribed", the NATO official had overlooked the obvious point that the country "represents twenty percent of humanity and now possesses the largest economy in the world … and has no record for attacking other states, unlike the United States, whose bidding Stoltenberg is happy to do"."
China does have a record for attacking other states. A list of communist Chinese wars may be found at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
In some of those wars, China was the aggressor. China attacked and annexed Tibet. China attacked India and Vietnam. In some of those wars, China was allied with the US. In the game of war, there are few innocents.