Nato leaders voice concern about threat China poses to world order for first time

Beijing's efforts to build up nuclear forces, hacking operations and increasingly close ties to Moscow are serious challenges', says Nato secretary general

China is not an adversary but it does represent serious challenges, Jens Stoltenberg, Nato's secretary general, said on Wednesday, as the alliance agreed for the first time to include threats posed by Beijing into a blueprint guiding its future strategy.

While Russia's war against Ukraine has dominated discussions at the Nato summit, China earned a place among the western alliance's most worrying security concerns.