STOCKHOLM: The United States House Foreign Affairs chair said on Friday (Sep 1) that a partnership of the Russian and Chinese leaders worried him, adding: “We have never seen a threat this large-scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” The alliance of Chinese leader Xi Jinpi
Long-neutral Sweden applied for NATO membership together with neighbouring Finland in 2022.
New entries must be approved by all existing members, and as NATO leaders met for a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sweden was missing the green light from two:Finland, which shares a 1,340km border with Russia - more than doubling the size of NATO’s border with Russia -But it wasn’t until a NATO summit in July that Türkiye’s president agreed to send the accession documents to the Turkish parliament for approval, something he had refused to do for more than a year.
Having Finland and Sweden in NATO “will achieve the exact opposite effect that Mr Putin wanted to achieve, and that was to weaken and divide NATO”, McCaul said.The visiting US congressional delegation also included Gregory Meeks ; Ann Wagner ; Gerry Connolly ; Madeleine Dean ; Thomas Kean ; and Bill Huizenga .
After Stockholm they were to travel to the Netherlands for bilateral meetings with Dutch government officials and members of parliament, among others. The delegation’s Europe visit aimed to bolster ties with US strategic allies and to discuss support for NATO; ways to further support Ukraine - the Netherlands and Denmark have said they will donate fighter jets - and ways to hold Russia accountable for its crimes against the people of Ukraine; and how to confront shared threats from China.
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