Xi warns NATO

In a speech before the start of the BRICS economic summit, China’s state and party leader Xi Jinping warned against an expansion of international military alliances. The Ukraine crisis was a „wake-up call,“ he said, according to Chinese state media, but directed his criticism not at Russia’s war of aggression but at the United States and its ally. He warned against „expanding military alliances and seeking one’s own security at the expense of other countries’ security“.