阿爾登1日與強森會談後，兩人發表共同聲明，表示致力於印度─太平洋地區的和平穩定，「兩國也強調台灣海峽和平與穩定的重要性，並且鼓勵透過對話，和平解決兩岸問題」。聲明也對香港權利與自由遭侵蝕、新疆侵犯人權情況，表達「嚴重關切」。』

Its official: NATO designates China as a source of "systemic challenges" to Euro-Atlantic security in the latest once-a-decade Strategic Concept, and calls out Beijing-Moscow partnership for undercutting NATO countries values and interests.

面對新近侵略性的俄羅斯，北約領導人週三概述了一個肌肉發達的新願景，將莫斯科列為軍事聯盟的主要對手，但也首次宣佈中國是一個戰略“挑戰”。

對於一個誕生於冷戰的聯盟來說，這是一個根本性的轉變，但後來將後蘇聯的俄羅斯視為潛在的盟友，根本不關注中國。

但那是在2月24日之前，當時俄羅斯軍隊越過邊境湧入烏克蘭，中國領導人尖銳地沒有加入隨後的全球譴責。

北約領導人在馬德里峰會上發表的新任務宣告中表示：“中華人民共和國和俄羅斯聯邦之間不斷深化的戰略伙伴關係，以及他們削弱基於規則的國際秩序的相輔相成的嘗試，更違背了我們的價值觀和利益。” 閱讀更多

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A More Muscular NATO Emerges as West Confronts Russia and China

Faced with a newly aggressive Russia, NATO leaders on Wednesday outlined a muscular new vision that names Moscow as the military alliance’s primary adversary but also, for the first time, declares China to be a strategic “challenge.”

It was a fundamental shift for an alliance that was born in the Cold War but came to view a post-Soviet Russia as a potential ally, and did not focus on China at all.

But that was before Feb. 24, when Russian forces poured across the border into Ukraine, and Chinese leaders pointedly did not join in the global condemnation that followed.

“The deepening strategic partnership between the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut the rules-based international order run counter to our values and interests,” NATO leaders said in a new mission statement issued during their summit in Madrid. Read more

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