NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said it would be “naive” to believe that Xi’s ambition to conquer the autonomous nation of Taiwan would only involve the two countries, predicting that the war would be fought on two fronts. “There’s an increasing realization, and let’s not be naive about this: If Xi Jinping would attack Taiwan, he would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, residing in Moscow, and telling him, ‘Hey, I’m going to do this, and I need you to keep them busy in Europe by attacking NATO territory,'” Rutte told The New York Times. Rutte’s prediction that Beijing would use Moscow to distract the West echoes reports from the European Union’s meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week, where the official allegedly claimed Xi cannot afford to see Russia lose the war in Ukraine.
Author: Ronny Reyes
Published at: 2025-07-06 22:33:07
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