This was stated on Wednesday by the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, while assuring that the Atlantic Alliance had no proof that such deliveries have already taken place.
“This is something we are following closely,” he told reporters after a meeting of Allied foreign ministers extended on its second day to “partners” from the Indo region. -pacific regions of Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
“China did not condemn the brutal invasion of Ukraine. We also know that Russia and China are getting closer and closer,” Stoltenberg added.
He recalled that the Russian and Chinese presidents, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, always quick to denounce Western attempts to create a “unipolar world”, had announced a “friendship without limits” during a summit in early February 2022 in Beijing. , three weeks before the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine. Last March, the two presidents signed, this time in Moscow, an agreement intended to bring relations between their two countries “into a new era” of cooperation.
China is increasingly dependent on the Russian economy, further argued the Secretary General, referring to massive deliveries of gas to Beijing via the cross-border gas pipeline “Siberian Force”.
NATO, concerned recently by the growing emergence of China on the world stage, must not however adapt its “strategic concept”, adopted last July during a summit of Heads of State and Government allied to Madrid, assured Mr. Stoltenberg.