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True Purpose Of NATO Remains USA Hegemony<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Yves Engler via Counterpunch.org,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NATO\u2019s new focus on China harkens back to the belligerent alliance\u2019s early days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization\u2019s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC, last week China was a big part of the agenda. The NATO summit\u2019s final declaration mentioned the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s (PRC)\u00a014 times<\/a>. It noted that \u201cthe PRC continues to pose systemic challenges to Euro-Atlantic security\u201d and China\u2019s \u201cstated ambitions and coercive policies continue to challenge our interests, security and values.\u201d<\/p>\n

The leaders of NATO \u201cpartner\u201d nations Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia\u00a0attended the summit. <\/strong>They collectively met NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to map out strategy for the Asia Pacific region. NATO announced four new joint projects with countries that are important to Washington\u2019s bid to establish an anti-China military bloc. In response, Beijing accused NATO of \u201cinciting<\/a>\u00a0bloc confrontation and hyping up regional tensions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, NATO frames its focus on China as defensive. \u201cThe PRC has become a decisive enabler of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine\u201d, claimed the summit\u2019s final communique.\u00a0According to this storyline, Chinese relations with Russia threaten NATO. But this is exaggerated. China has taken a cautious approach to Russia\u2019s war largely complying with (illegal) US sanctions and refusing to sell arms (though its companies sell some dual use products to Russian firms). Conversely, North Korea and Iran are selling Russia arms while NATO countries are donating large amounts of weapons to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Comparing Chinese ties to India\u2019s highlights NATO\u2019s exaggeration.<\/strong> India is buying\u00a0more oil<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0weapons<\/a>\u00a0from Russia than China and when NATO began its meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

In 2022, NATO released a strategic concept listing China for the first-time. It labeled Beijing a challenge to the alliance\u2019s \u201cinterests<\/a>, security and values\u201d and at the time Stoltenberg declared, \u201cChina<\/a>\u00a0is substantially building up its military forces, including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbours, threatening Taiwan \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is all part of the US empire\u2019s bid to contain China\u2019s rise. Washington has become obsessed with an emerging \u201cpeer competitor\u201d that may eventually rival its power.<\/p>\n

While it seems strange that an alliance to defend the \u2018north Atlantic\u2019 should target a faraway Asian state, NATO is neither defensive nor only about the north Atlantic. The alliance\u2019s recent wars in Afghanistan and Libya demonstrate that it\u2019s a tool to enable US-led global domination.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s been clear for 75 years.<\/p>\n

As part of the Parliamentary debate over NATO\u2019s founding Canada\u2019s external affairs minister Lester Pearson said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere<\/a>\u00a0is no better way of ensuring the security of the Pacific Ocean at this particular moment than by working out, between the great democratic powers, a security arrangement the effects of which will be felt all over the world, including the Pacific area.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Two years later he said:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe<\/a>\u00a0defence of the Middle East is vital to the successful defence of Europe and north Atlantic area.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

In 1953 Pearson went even further: <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere<\/a>\u00a0is now only a relatively small [5000 kilometre] geographical gap between southeast Asia and the area covered by the North Atlantic treaty, which goes to the eastern boundaries of Turkey.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Pearson believed that the newly created \u2018defensive\u2019 alliance justified sending 27,000 Canadian troops to Korea.<\/strong> In a history of the 1950-53 US-led Korean war David Bercuson writes that Canada\u2019s external minister \u201cagreed with [President] Truman, [Secretary of State] Dean Acheson, and other American leaders that the Korean conflict was NATO\u2019s first true test, even if it was taking place half a world away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Korean War was partly a reaction to Mao\u2019s 1949 communist\/nationalist revolution\u00a0in China. After US forces approached its border, China intervened.\u00a0The war left around three million dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In reality, NATO was established to\u00a0bring a decolonizing world under the US geopolitical umbrella.<\/strong>\u00a0This remains true 75 years later as the alliance continues to advance US hegemony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 07\/23\/2024 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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