The CCP criticized alliance’s push to increase military budgets to 5 percent of GDP.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L), Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer (2nd L), US President Donald Trump (3rd L), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (C), Netherlands’ Prime Minister Dick Schoof (3rd R) attend a NATO leaders summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images
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AMSTERDAM—As NATO leaders gathered in the Netherlands this week to unveil a historic pledge to ramp up defense spending, Beijing was watching nervously from the other side of the world.
The Chinese Communist regime issued a flurry of statements, accusing NATO of “stoking confrontation” and questioning the alliance’s intentions.
Emel Akan is a senior White House correspondent for The Epoch Times, where she covers the policies of the Trump administration. Previously, she reported on the Biden administration and the first term of President Trump. Before her journalism career, she worked in investment banking at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
