This afternoon (May 8), a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense released a message on recent military issues. NATO recently released its annual report saying that China has become a "systemic challenge" of NATO and has rapidly expanded its nuclear arsenal. The spokesperson commented on the relevant policies threaten the interests, security and values ​​of NATO member states.

Zhang Xiaogang, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said that the relevant NATO report is full of Cold War mentality, and exaggerating the so-called "China threat", which is completely disregarding the facts and finding the wrong target. China has no intention of challenging anyone, nor does it threaten anyone. China's nuclear policy is highly stable, continuity and predictability, and always pursues a nuclear strategy of self-defense and defense, maintaining nuclear power at the lowest level needed by national security.

In contrast, NATO has expanded its power in recent years and has been involved in the Asia-Pacific region, seriously undermining regional peace and stability. Not only that, NATO has the world's largest nuclear arsenal through "nuclear sharing" arrangements, and some member states have spent huge sums of money to upgrade their strategic forces, and plans to carry out cooperation on nuclear submarines involving the large-scale spread of weapon-grade nuclear materials to non-nuclear-weapon countries. The relevant practices seriously violate the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, seriously undermine the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and seriously impact global strategic security and stability. We urge NATO to examine its own problems more, rather than making a mistake out of nothing and slandering the blame.