Against the backdrop of an increasingly complex security situation, NATO is
\ntaking steps to ensure it can cope with current and future challenges. NATO
\nleaders, who met at a summit in Brussels, approved NATO 2023 – the most important
\npackage of measures in recent decades by which the structure seeks to adapt
\nitself. This includes, among others, a new policy of cyber defence, a new commitment
\nwith respect to resilience, and, as a first, tackling the security consequences
\nof climate change. Europe and North America must stand strong together in
\nNATO. To defend our values and our interests. Especially at a time when authoritarian
\nregimes like Russia and China challenge the rules-based order, emphasised NATO
\nsecretary general Jens Stoltenberg. He said member states are worried about
\nwhat he called China’s coercive policies and the challenges these pose to the
\nsecurity of the North Atlantic Alliance. He also mentioned the rapid expansion
\nof China’s nuclear arsenal and its joint exercises with Russia in the Euro-Atlantic
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In an interview to Radio Romania, the head of the
\nCentre for Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Iulian Chifu made an analysis
\nof the document approved by NATO leaders:<\/p>\n
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Russia remains the main enemy and the range of
\nthreats coming from Russia were clearly articulated, even more so than at the
\nNATO summit in Warsaw, with the entire array of threats posed by Russia being
\nnamed and exposed. China is mentioned for the first time in this document, as a
\nstrategic challenge. We’re seeing here rising concerns about China and we’re
\nalso seeing the migration from let’s say Afghanistan and external terrorism to
\nan area where the main concern is cyber-attacks and especially that very topical
\nand very important component of security, namely technological security. Romania
\nmanaged to achieve its targets, first of all at Allied level and secondly and specifically
\nwith respect to the defence and consolidation of the defence and deterrence
\nposture on the eastern flank and the references to the Black Sea and the Allied
\nconcerns in the wider Black Sea area and of the Euro-Atlantic centre for
\nresilience established in Bucharest and which is intended as a NATO centre of
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History books tell us that Eurasia never had two hegemons
\n– right now, China and Russia have certain common interests dictated by America’s
\nsuperpower status in the last 30 years, says Romania’s former foreign minister,
\nprofessor Adrian Cioroianu in an analysis of the current geopolitical situation.
\nIn his opinion, while the two may forge an alliance in the medium term, in the
\nlong term the question naturally arises: what kind of long-term interests do
\nthey have in common? Adrian Cioroianu:<\/p>\n
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Things may look like the two are heading towards a
\nform of cooperation against the West, but they may equally lead to tensions,
\nbecause the two are sharing an area of influence, an area of dominance, and
\nfrom this point of view, I believe Russia may go down on NATO’s list of
\npriorities because Russia is a rival over influence in Europe, but not one that
\nis growing as is the case with China.<\/p>\n
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Adrian Cioroianu explains China’s increasingly strong
\nemergence on the NATO agenda through a completely unexpected fact that occurred
\nin the last decade, something not even seen during the Cold War:<\/p>\n
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During the Cold War, when the West was in competition
\nwith the Soviet Union, the West and in particular the US held the technological
\nsupremacy at all times. Regardless of how much the Soviet Union invested in
\narms or space technology, the Americans were always one or two steps ahead. From
\nthis point of view there are fears, especially in recent years, in last five
\nyears probably, ever since there is awareness of this fact, that in certain
\nareas of technological research such as artificial intelligence, which is based
\non the collection of data, China may in some respects be ahead of the West
\nright now. In the global world in which we live, the idea of borders practically
\ndoes not exist any longer. The NATO secretary general put it very eloquently
\nwhen he said that when it comes to cyber borders we are all neighbours, hence
\nthis idea that China is advancing quickly towards the borders, the digital
\nborders, which may translate as cyberespionage, intellectual theft and the
\ntheft of data from large consortiums and big global enterprises.<\/p>\n
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Such accusations have been made and from this point of
\nview, says professor Cioroianu, ongoing competition is being waged in the
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