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Special Dispatch No. 9281 – Chinese Expert Zhou Bo: As A Military Organization, NATO Belongs To The Past; The World Is Moving Toward A Multi-Polar World Order

On March 24, 2021, the China Forum platform published an interview with Chinese expert Zhou Bo, former director of the Center for Security Cooperation in the Office for International Military Cooperation in the Chinese Ministry of Defense and senior fellow of the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, on China-NATO relations.

Zhou stated that NATO should clarify its position on China, since NATO has described China as both an opportunity and a challenge. Stating that China has become “big enough” for NATO to be “interested in,” he added that with the expansion of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, NATO suddenly discovered that “China has entered NATO’s territory.”

In February, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said: “The rise of China is a defining issue for the transatlantic community, with potential consequences for our security, our prosperity and our way of life.” However, according to Zhou, China can be an opportunity for NATO, rather than a challenge, and that in some non-traditional security areas China and NATO could cooperate.

Zhou concluded by assessing that NATO, as a military organization, belongs to the past and is going “in the opposite direction of the general trend of the times,” in view of the fact that the world is moving toward a “more multi-polarized and pluralistic world order.”

Below is Zhou Bo’s interview:

If China And The U.S. Decouple, ‘Then Europe Would Reap The Benefits’

Zhou: “The relationship between China and NATO has a unique feature. That is, most NATO countries are also EU members. They have an overall good relationship, especially in terms of economy and trade, with China. That is gratifying. To some extent, if America’s relationship with China really reached a point of decoupling, then Europe would reap the benefits, because Chinese technology and capital would flow towards Europe.

“The top priority of NATO is political rather than military. NATO and China, to a certain extent, have a ‘no interaction’ and ‘don’t step on each other’s toes’ relationship. At this moment, it remains to be seen to what extent NATO can be hijacked by America onto its warship. If such a large military organization follows America and becomes its henchman in antagonizing China, then Chinese-Russian relations will probably get closer.”

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