Comments on the Brussels Summit Communique

... Russia is depicted not only as one of leading challenges to NATO but as a threat, which is more dangerous than international terrorism. For the first time in NATO’s Communique (and apparently as a derivative – In the next NATO’s strategic concept) China is mentioned several times. It is characterized as a potential, not immediate challenge. Interestingly, the policy of China is called “assertive”, an adjective, which in the past for a long time was reserved for Russia (see paragraph 55). Still ...