POLICY_ DEFENSE_ 'Dictators': Europe is waking up to threats from China, defense experts say

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'Dictators': Europe is waking up to threats from China, defense experts say


by Joel Gehrke | November 19, 2019 03:42 PM


China’s attempt to gain economic influence in Europe poses major strategic threats to American allies, according to defense officials, including one on the front lines of NATO.

“We really need to be careful that, as well, China would not be dictators [of] us economically,” Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis told the Washington Examiner.

Lithuania, a Baltic Sea nation that keeps a close watch on Russia as well as on China’s efforts to make in-roads in northern Europe, has warned since February about Chinese espionage threats. Karoblis’s comments are emblematic of a broader shift in Europe, American sources said, as the transatlantic alliance unites against the threat of the world’s leading communist power.

“The entire European Union and NATO have flipped to understanding the threat of China,” Rob Spalding, a retired Air Force general who helped craft President Trump’s 2017 national security strategy, told the Washington Examiner.

That shift has been driven by U.S. diplomats and western intelligence agencies, which see Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei as an espionage threat.

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