After suffering a setback on the first day of the Yugoslav offensive, the Foreign and Defence Ministers of the North Atlantic Council came together to discuss the not-so-prosperous situation in Yugoslavia.

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a female politician with a diplomatic backbone in the U.S. political arena, said forcefully: "China cannot be allowed to continue to behave like this, and although they have not engaged in a substantive exchange of fire with us, their behavior is no different from that of war and has caused great damage to our troops." There is no such thing as an absolute irrelevance on the battlefield, and China is obviously not our friend at this time, it can only be our enemy. ”

The Spanish foreign minister said worriedly: "However, if China is directly involved in this war, I am afraid that what we will fight will not be a regional conflict, but a full-scale world war." ”

British Defense Secretary Robertson pointed out: "But China is already involved in this war, and it is not a question of whether we want to get involved in them." ”

German Foreign Minister Joshka Fischer shook his head and said: "I don't think any of the countries here are ready for a full-scale war with a world-class military power like China." It is truly regrettable and regrettable that we should carry out a peace situation for which millions of people could be killed and injured and destroyed decades of peace because of an incident that is not particularly serious. ”

Albright was a little unhappy with Fisher's statement that China is a world-class military power, and she said forcefully: "It needs to be pointed out that we are not gathered here to start a war because of a trivial matter. We have launched this war of defence for the sake of the sacred values of 'freedom, democracy, and human rights' that our country upholds. While a peaceful environment is worth cherishing, we should also learn the lessons of history. The appeasement of Hitler by the free world before World War II led to a tragedy, and we should not see the past repeated. ”

The Norwegian defense minister immediately interjected: "I don't think today's China is comparable to Nazi Germany of that day, although China is not a country that shares our values, but we cannot deny that the Chinese have done a good job, and there are no serious mistakes." In addition, Nazi Germany was far inferior in size and military strength before World War II to China today. ”

The Germans were not very pleased with Albright's analogy, and sat there with a dark face and did not speak. "China is very strong, but the United States is even stronger, and NATO's allies are also very strong, and we have the ability and confidence to stand up to China," Albright added. What's more, we may not need a war to be able to make this evil dragon retreat, as long as we show our wrists and muscles, at the doorstep of Europe, the Chinese dare not make a second! ”

International politics is a very real thing, and no country can really participate in war for the sake of some empty slogans and ideas. In the final analysis, the Kosovo War was a drama in which the United States and China competed for world leadership, and the NATO countries were only sitting on the American chariot and had to participate. If it is a war with the wind, it doesn't matter, help a group of Americans, and the Americans will also reciprocate in some other aspects, but China is obviously not a soft persimmon, and if they want to follow the United States to gather forces to fight China, these European countries feel hanging, and they can't do it at all.

But these European countries cannot pick on their own at this time, which will seriously undermine NATO's mutual trust and relations with the United States, after all, they still need the big brother of the United States to help them with collective defense. At this time, although the formidable enemy of the Soviet Union is no longer there, all kinds of new threats are also emerging in the world, such as the challenge of extreme green terrorists, emerging countries, and threats in the field of non-traditional security, and NATO also has a strong need to exist.

In fact, even US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright himself is not so confident, and the White House and Capitol Hill have a relatively big controversy over how to deal with Kosovo. Clinton himself was rather hesitant, and if he wanted to win the Kosovo war, he would inevitably take action against the Chinese troops stationed in Yugoslavia. The maximum that the United States can accept is a local war with a small number of Chinese troops in the Balkans. And if China continues to build up troops here, or if the war spreads to other regions, such as the Western Pacific and even Hawaii, then the Americans will not be able to accept it.

Not only are European countries not ready to engage with China, but even the United States itself is not ready for this. Over the years, the United States has been strengthening its defense against China, but this defense is multifaceted, spanning economic, geopolitical, military and other aspects, but if it is going to war, the Pentagon believes that now is not a good time. Moreover, it is only the arms dealers who are cheaper to fight wars, and the larger number of capitalists and conglomerates in the United States seriously reject the destruction of their business brought about by a war.

In today's world, only peaceful business can make a fortune, and the devastation caused by war is also something that capitalists and conglomerates deeply hate. The previous civil war in Japan and the Ebola epidemic have caused huge losses to many American companies, and if any government calls for war, many profitable capitalists and consortia will inevitably withdraw their political donations to support them.

Of course, as Chinese companies pursue and block American companies all over the world, and with the development of time, more and more American capital will hate China, and those who like to do business with China and those who do not like China's wanton development will play games and confront each other until one side has the advantage and the situation changes.

Although Albright continues to persuade the foreign ministers and defense ministers of NATO allies, the differences within NATO member states are still relatively large, and when the United States is unable to strengthen its own convictions, it should not expect other countries to follow them in the same direction. Albright's toughness is very inward-looking in the eyes of foreign ministers, and it is also extremely untrustworthy. The mess has poked out, and it is unknown who will clean up and who will pay.

The meeting lasted for four hours without much success, and just when the delegates were exhausted, an astonishing news came that made them even more confused.

"China and Yugoslavia have signed a mutual defense agreement, Yugoslavia has formally joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization have the obligation to ensure the security environment in Yugoslavia, and Yugoslavia also has the obligation to exercise the right of collective self-defense with other allies. China, together with several major SCO member states, announced that in view of the further deterioration of the security situation in Yugoslavia, it will continue to increase its troops to Yugoslavia to ensure Yugoslavia's security. ”

Albright couldn't help but smile wryly when she saw the newsprint in her hand. China has denied them any room for reverse, and Yugoslavia knew at a critical juncture that it would be difficult to confront NATO, and that it could only protect itself by tying itself up to China and the SCO. At that time, even if a major war broke out, Yugoslavia would not be defeated quickly, and the Yugoslav Communist Party would not easily lose power.

NATO's invasion of Yugoslavia eventually turned into a contest between NATO and the SCO, the two largest military alliances in the post-Cold War era. If NATO is determined to attack Yugoslavia, then the SCO will definitely not rest on its laurels. Perhaps in Europe, NATO is much stronger than the SCO, but as a large military alliance, the SCO also has a variety of forces that pose a threat to NATO, and the most direct threat is nuclear weapons.

China's powerful strategic and tactical nuclear weapons delivery capabilities have been slowly revealed on its own, and the huge air-based bombers developed and inherited from the Soviet Union pose a huge nuclear threat to Europe. The 16 strategic nuclear submarines of the sea-based are unpredictable, and the threat is even more unpredictable; Land-based China has also secretly deployed road- and railway-mobile launchers, such as the DF-31A and DF-41, on the territory of the SCO member states to relive its fears of the Soviet Union.

After considering more factors, some small European countries such as Norway, Belgium, Denmark, and Portugal can no longer continue to play this heartbeat game, and the representatives of these countries say that they need to consider more carefully whether to participate in the military attack on Yugoslavia, and even some politicians are ready to put forward the new principle of neutrality, preferring to turn their backs on NATO rather than fight with China in a foolish way.

Soon, the actual threat from the SCO became more apparent, and two other Chinese aircraft carriers carried their carrier battle groups through the Suez Canal, reached the Mediterranean, and carried out blockade operations on the periphery of the Adriatic Sea. For a time, four NATO aircraft carriers and three Chinese aircraft carriers, a total of seven aircraft carriers, gathered in the Adriatic Sea, making this narrow inland sea extremely congested, and at the same time, the sense of urgency of the dark clouds overwhelming the city also made all the authorities breathless.

At the SCO press conference, the SCO also made it clear that the security and dignity of Yugoslavia, as a new SCO member state, are absolutely inviolable, and that the SCO member states will make every effort to protect Yugoslavia from aggression and that any hostile targets that invade Yugoslavia's territory, territorial waters and airspace will be mercilessly eliminated. The SCO allies will also take an unrestricted approach and counterattack against the countries that started the war.

This signal clearly shows that if NATO fighters invade Yugoslavia again and carry out bombing operations, Chinese fighters will no longer play tricks with them, but will actually attack them. In addition, China and other SCO countries are determined to protect Yugoslavia, and if Yugoslavia is attacked, the SCO will not only take defensive measures, but even offensive means, including the advance of ground troops, to counterattack the enemy.

All the ambiguous space has disappeared, and there are only two options left between NATO and the SCO, either you and wait to retreat and make peace with each other, or all-out war, a world war.