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Sino File by Cary Huang
Beijing’s nightmare is coming true. China is Nato’s new communist target
Cary Huang
Published: 11:00am, 15 Dec, 2019
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Conflict between Westerndemocracies and the communist Eastern bloc was the key reason behind the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (
Nato
) in 1949 and its rival opponent the Warsaw Pact in 1955.
The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps – the US-led Western Bloc and Soviet Union-led Eastern Bloc – formalised the global rivalry of the post-World War II period and involved an arms race that endured throughout the cold war. But since the break-up of the Warsaw Pact on March 31, 1991, following the worldwide collapse of socialism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Nato’s reason for being – and its subsequent expansion during the late 1990s to include former Soviet satellite states – has been widely questioned.
However, as member states celebrated its 70th anniversary at a golf resort in Watford on the outskirts of London this month, Nato seemed to have found something to legitimise its existence once more. Another rising communist power is now in its sights: China.
Sino File by Cary Huang
Beijing’s nightmare is coming true. China is Nato’s new communist target
- The bickering by Macron and Trump distracted from the real development at Nato’s UK summit: a focus on Beijing’s growing military clout
- Nato has always needed a common enemy and communist target. In China, it has both
Cary Huang
Published: 11:00am, 15 Dec, 2019
1.9k
Conflict between Westerndemocracies and the communist Eastern bloc was the key reason behind the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (
Nato
) in 1949 and its rival opponent the Warsaw Pact in 1955.
The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps – the US-led Western Bloc and Soviet Union-led Eastern Bloc – formalised the global rivalry of the post-World War II period and involved an arms race that endured throughout the cold war. But since the break-up of the Warsaw Pact on March 31, 1991, following the worldwide collapse of socialism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Nato’s reason for being – and its subsequent expansion during the late 1990s to include former Soviet satellite states – has been widely questioned.
However, as member states celebrated its 70th anniversary at a golf resort in Watford on the outskirts of London this month, Nato seemed to have found something to legitimise its existence once more. Another rising communist power is now in its sights: China.
