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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent

Beijing hits out at Nato strategy for ‘malicious attack’ on China

Nato allies meeting in Madrid this week.
Nato allies meeting in Madrid this week. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/AP

China has issued a strong rebuke at Nato, calling out what it said was “cold war thinking and ideological bias”, after the western military bloc said Beijing posed “serious challenges” to global stability.

Nato allies agreed for the first time to include challenges and threats posed by China into a strategy blueprint in its latest summit in Madrid this week. The alliance’s previous document, issued in 2010, made no mention of China.

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