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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 680px; margin: 0px auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="news-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="news-header__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 0.67em; line-height: 50px;"><font size="4" face="Arial Narrow" color="#919191" class="">I find this hard to believe but the Rand Corp. did predict war with China in 2030, which means much sooner if they can provoke China into delivering the first blow, see below: </font></h1><h1 class="news-header__title" style="font-family: Gost, sans-serif; font-size: 40px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 0.67em; font-weight: 400; line-height: 50px;">China to become NATO’s second main enemy after Russia in next 10 years, report says</h1><div class="news-header__lead" style="font-family: Gost, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(116, 126, 137); line-height: 30px; margin-top: 25px;">The report notes the necessity to reform the Alliance, establishing a number of specialized structures, to counteract challenges coming from Beijing.</div></div></div><div class="news-media_photo news-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 45px; font-family: Gost, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="text-include text-include-photo" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto;"><img class="text-include-photo__img" ng-class="{'resize':undefined}" src="https://phototass1.cdnvideo.ru/width/1020_b9261fa1/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20201201/1294355.jpg" alt="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none; width: 910px; vertical-align: top; margin-bottom: 5px;"><a class="text-include-photo__source" data-ng-href="" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(116, 126, 137); background-color: transparent; padding-top: 5px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">© AP Photo/Kin Cheung</a></div></div><div class="text-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-top: 50px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="text-block" style="font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 680px; margin: 0px auto;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">BRUSSELS, December 1. /TASS/. NATO experts have prepared the NATO 2030 - United for a New Era report, which claims that in the upcoming 10 years, China will become the second-worst enemy of the Alliance after Russia, and that the bloc must be urgently reformed in order to counteract it, establishing a number of specialized structures, a source in Brussels told TASS Tuesday.</p></div><div class="text-include-aside_link text-include-aside" style="font-family: Gost, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; clear: left; width: 300px; margin: 20px 25px 20px 0px; position: relative; z-index: 1; transition: z-index 0.3s ease 0.3s; -webkit-transition: z-index 0.3s ease 0.3s;"><div class="text-include-aside__container" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 20px; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 250); box-shadow: rgba(41, 39, 89, 0.25) 0px 20px 18px;"><div class="text-include-aside__mark" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(116, 126, 137);">READ ALSO</div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1089519" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; display: block;" class=""><div class="text-include-aside__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="text-include-aside__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">NATO confronted by China's efforts to undermine its security — Pompeo</div></div><div class="text-include-aside__body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><div class="text-include-aside__image-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="text-include-aside__image" data-content_read_on_topic_photo="data-content_read_on_topic_photo" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-size: cover; background-position: 50% center; padding-top: 169px; height: 0px; background-image: url("//phototass2.cdnvideo.ru/width/960_51849019/tass/m2/en/uploads/i/20191116/1237337.jpg");"></div></div></div></a></div></div><div class="text-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 680px; margin: 20px auto 0px;"><p style="font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class="">"According to the NATO 2030 report, which Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will present at the NATO Foreign Ministers’ video conference Tuesday, in the upcoming decade, the Alliance must concentrate, besides the response to traditional threats [deterrence of Russia and humanitarian interventions], on countering challenges coming from China. The report recommends establishing special structures, which must guarantee NATO’s technical dominance over China and protect the member states from China establishing an economic control over their strategic sectors of economy," the source said.</p><p style="font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;" class="">"The authors also recommend including China and measures for countering it in a new edition of the NATO Strategic Concept."</p><p style="font-family: 'Noto Serif', serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;" class="">The report also "notes the necessity to prevent China from establishing control over the key commodity sources, including new-generation ones, in the third countries, in Africa in particular."<img class="aries_aspectRatio" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20src%3D%22data%3Aimage%2Fsvg%2Bxml%2C%253Csvg%2520xmlns%253D%2522http%253A%252F%252Fwww.w3.org%252F2000%252Fsvg%2522%2520width%253D%2522640%2522%2520height%253D%2522360%2522%253E%253C%252Fsvg%253E%22%20width%3D%22680%22%20height%3D%22382.5%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E" style="font-size: 0px; 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