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Nato poses ‘systemic challenge to world peace and security,’ China charges in broadside against US-led military alliance ahead of G20 summit
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi meet, on October 31, 2021 at a hotel in Rome on the sidelines of the G20 of World Leaders Summit

CHINA launched a broadside against Nato expansion today days ahead of a G20 planning summit in Bali.

The Indonesia conference will see a bilateral meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and is expected to expose deep divisions on the war in Ukraine, Western sanctions and Nato expansion to include Finland and Sweden, who signed accession protocols on Tuesday.

Mr Blinken accused China at last week’s Nato summit in Madrid of “undermining the rules-based international order,” but Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said today that “so-called rules-based international order is actually a family rule made by a handful of countries to serve the US self-interest” while the US itself “only observes international rules when it sees fit.

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