NATO chief warns China, Russia building “stronger and stronger partnership”

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the alliance could see how “China and Russia are coming closer and closer in the military domain,” pointing to examples of joint exercises and patrols. He warned that “the meeting in Moscow is part of that pattern where China and Russia are working more and more closely and building a stronger and stronger partnership."

Speaking ahead of the release of a NATO report, Stoltenberg also said seven out of 30 allies met NATO's military spending target of two percent of GDP in 2022, one country less than in 2021 before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, urging allies to boost defence investment more quickly.

At their Wales summit in 2014, NATO leaders agreed to move towards spending at least two percent of their GDP on defence within a decade. Almost ten years after the Wales pledge, and one year into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO allies launched discussions a few weeks ago on how to adapt the spending target.

A decision is expected at a NATO summit in Lithuania in July, and Stoltenberg has said that he sees the two percent target as a floor and not a ceiling in the future.

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