Biden speaks during a media conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, on June 14, 2021.- AP
BRUSSELS (Reuters): NATO leaders warned on Monday (June 14) that China presents "systemic challenges," taking a forceful stance towards Beijing in a communique at Joe Biden's first summit with an alliance that Donald Trump openly disparaged.
The new US president has urged his fellow NATO leaders to stand up to China's authoritarianism and growing military might, a change of focus for an alliance created to defend Europe from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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