{"id":1400853,"date":"2022-03-25T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400853"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:44:57","slug":"china-there-will-be-no-peace-as-long-as-brain-dead-nato-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-there-will-be-no-peace-as-long-as-brain-dead-nato-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"China: \u2018There Will Be No Peace\u2019 as Long as \u2018Brain-Dead\u2019 NATO Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-there-will-be-no-peace-as-long-as-brain-dead-nato-exists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1400853&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>on Friday slammed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg for criticizing China\u2019s support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>howled that Stoltenberg was a liar, China clearly wants the Ukraine war to end, and NATO is more of a threat to world peace than the Chinese Communist Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Stoltenberg held a press conference ahead of a NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday in which he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/nato-warns-china-not-help-russia-ukraine-war-2022-03-23\/\"><span>accused<\/span><\/a><span> China of giving Russia \u201cpolitical support\u201d for the invasion of Ukraine, \u201cincluding by spreading blatant lies and misinformation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stoltenberg said NATO is concerned China\u2019s political backing could escalate to \u201cmaterial support\u201d for Russia and advised the Chinese government to \u201clive up to its responsibilities\u201d by joining the rest of the world in opposing the invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe face a fundamentally changed security environment where authoritarian powers are increasingly prepared to use force to get their way. Beijing has joined Moscow in questioning the right of independent nations to choose their own path,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-nato-allies-watching-china-carefully\/6498200.html\"><span>Voice of America News<\/span><\/a><span> (VOA) cited research that backed up Stoltenberg\u2019s comments about China spreading misinformation on Russia\u2019s behalf:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Posts by Chinese officials and news outlets have \u201cremained largely aligned with Russian messaging,\u201d according to analysis by the Washington-based Alliance for Securing Democracy, which tracks online propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018NATO\u2019 was the tenth most used key phrase in Chinese tweets last week, as Chinese officials and state media continue to frame potential NATO enlargement as the root cause of Russia\u2019s invasion,\u201d the alliance said, noting Beijing also repeated Russian disinformation efforts tying the U.S. to biological weapons labs in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>responded on Friday by accusing Stoltenberg of \u201cpeddling lies which have confused black and white\u201d while his \u201cface skin might be thicker than the Berlin Wall,\u201d which is evidently a tortured metaphor for lying with a straight face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIs NATO, the biggest promoter of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in any way qualified to point a finger at China, which has been facilitating dialogue for peace from the very beginning?\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>shrieked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After reciting some Chinese Communist boilerplate about how Beijing, which adamantly refuses to denounce the Russian invasion, wants nothing more than peace in Ukraine, the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>accused NATO of tricking Russia into attacking because it wants to recreate the Cold War to justify its continued existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNATO, which has long been considered \u2018brain dead,\u2019 needs to find a life-saving ventilator, as relying on the oxygen brought about by creating a \u2018Russophobia\u2019 is increasingly insufficient. It fears it will expire at any time without being \u2018intubated,\u2019\u201d the editorial ranted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those are some deeply offensive metaphors coming from the brutal regime that unleashed the Wuhan coronavirus upon the world and condemned millions of innocent people to suffer on very non-metaphorical ventilators. (The sputtering Chinese editors never got around to explaining they were attempting to riff on French President Emmanuel Macron referring to the \u201cbrain death\u201d of NATO in a 2019 interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2019\/11\/07\/emmanuel-macron-warns-europe-nato-is-becoming-brain-dead\"><i><span>The Economist<\/span><\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>hooted that NATO\u2019s focus on the rising threat of China proves it is merely a \u201ctool for the U.S. to maintain hegemony\u201d and a \u201cmachine for the implementation of the U.S.\u2019 global will.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs long as NATO exists, there will be no day of peace in Europe and in the world,\u201d the hysterical editorial concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Friday slammed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg for criticizing China\u2019s support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 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