ChinaBEJING, Feb 8 China believes NATO expansion is not conducive to global security and stability «Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, NATO continues to expand its geography and range of operations, engaging in bloc politics and confrontation. This is not conducive to global security and stability,» said a statement released Tuesday on the official website of China's representation in the EU. — the message says. The Chinese side emphasizes that regional security should not be ensured by strengthening or expanding military blocs. «We call on NATO to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudices, respect sovereignty, security, culture of other countries,» the text says. Earlier, in a joint statement on international relations, Moscow and Beijing spoke about against the further expansion of NATO, they called on the alliance to abandon the approaches of the Cold War era.
At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of NATO strike weapons near the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. At the end of January, the United States and NATO submitted written responses to Russia's proposals on security guarantees to Moscow.