{ "error": "", "type": "text", "title": "Remarks by Vice President Pence at NATO Engages: The Alliance at 70 - China", "slug": "remarks-by-vice-president-pence-at-nato-engages-the-alliance-at-70-china", "text": "
\"Perhaps the greatest challenge NATO will face in the coming decades is how we must all adjust to the rise of the People\u2019s Republic of China. And adjust we must. For determining how to meet the challenge of Chinese 5G technology, meet the challenge of the easy money offered by China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative, is a challenge European allies must contend with every day.<\/p>\n
Whether we like it or not, the implications of China\u2019s rise will profoundly affect the choices NATO members will face, individually and collectively.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s expanding influence will necessarily demand more of America\u2019s attention and resources. And as we meet that challenge, our European allies must do more to maintain the strength and deterrence of our transatlantic alliance with their resources.<\/p>\n
Toward that end, we are grateful that NATO members are opening their own diplomatic dialogues with like-minded Indo-Pacific countries like Australia, Japan, Singapore, and Korea. And we welcome recent steps by NATO partners, France and Great Britain, to increase freedom-of-navigation and overflight operations in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n
By working together, we can maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific where independent nations boldly pursue their own interests; respect their neighbors as equals; and where societies, beliefs, and traditions flourish side by side; and where all their citizens are able to exercise their God-given liberties and pursue their dreams.\"<\/p>", "quote": null, "citation": "