{"id":33099,"date":"2021-06-15T01:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/expect-china-to-be-furious-at-being-cast-as-a-threat-to-the-west"},"modified":"2021-06-15T01:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T16:20:32","slug":"expect-china-to-be-furious-at-being-cast-as-a-threat-to-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33099","title":{"rendered":"Expect China to be furious at being cast as a threat to the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: some observers say Beijing may well seek to undermine Nato unity in response to being accused of posing a systemic challenge to western values<\/p>\n<p>When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) was established on 4 April 1949, its mission was to counterbalance armies from the Soviet Union that were stationed in central and eastern Europe after the conclusion of the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>After Emmanuel Macron, the current leader of one of its founding members, France, called it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/28\/macron-defends-brain-dead-nato-remarks-as-summit-approaches\">brain-dead<\/a>\u201d in 2019, some analysts said the alliance will have to look for a new unifying mission to keep itself relevant in the new age of great power competition between the US and China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/expect-china-to-be-furious-at-being-cast-as-a-threat-to-the-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: some observers say Beijing may well seek to undermine Nato unity in response to being accused of posing a systemic challenge to western valuesWhen the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) was established on 4 April 1949, its mission was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,637,939,470,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-g7","category-joe-biden","category-nato","category-russia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33106,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33099\/revisions\/33106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}