【英文】哈佛大学肯尼迪学院报告：美国如何协助北约及其欧洲联盟成员应对中国的安全挑战（49页）

英文研究报告 2022年07月13日 07:57 管理员

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its allies have a long history with China that has fuctuated between competitor, adversary, and ally. However, in response to US urging and US national security strategy, NATO and its allies have now recognized China’s economic growth, global infuence, and rejection of international norms as a concern that needs to be addressed both as a competitor and potential adversary. In an enormous shif in its position, NATO leadership began to make serious statements about China in 2020. As such, NATO issued a communique in June 2021 expressing concern that China’s ambitions and assertiveness present a systemic challenge to the rules-based international order.

Moreover, according to the NATO 2030 Refection Group2, China is expected to challenge NATO’s collective resilience within a decade and its extensive military modernization eforts across all domains that will present major risks and potential threats to NATO and its members.3 In particular, China leverages all of its instruments of power— economic, military, informational, technological, and diplomatic—to advance its strategic objectives and specifcally to be the world’s leader in artifcial intelligence (AI) and the global technological superpower. Most concerning is China’s current alliance with Russia that threatens to disrupt the rules-based international order and to subvert NATO’s fundamental values of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. NATO and its European allies are beginning to recognize that US defense of Europe will change due to China, and Europe must adjust accordingly.