NATO NEEDS TO THINK TWICE ABOUT ITS FUTURE
NATO NEEDS TO THINK TWICE ABOUT ITS FUTURE

Summary/Abstract: Xinghui Zhang, a journalist for a major Chinese newspaper, gives a personal account of how he has gained greater insight into NATO: and how he feels that NATO needs to focus more on its future development. First, the author outlines the three main trends of the changing world, based on which NATO will make clear the strategic direction of its transformation: cooperation has replaced confrontation, peace has already become a common universal goal and further economic and social development is in the mutual interests of all state and non-state actors. Then, he mentions the way NATO has been transforming itself since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War: NATO is enlarging its membership, it launched out-of-area campaigns, it has established a worldwide network through its various partnership programmes and, as the author believes, the organisation is seeking to change itself into an omnipotent giant. To conclude, the author mentions a few steps taken in the establishment of an official relation between China and NATO.

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