MADRID: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has for the first time singled out China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, warning about its growing military ambitions, confrontational rhetoric toward Taiwan and other neighbors, and increasingly close ties to Russia.

While Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dominated discussions at the NATO summit in Spain's capital Madrid, China on Wednesday earned a place among the Western defense alliance's most worrying security concerns.

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