NATO member states have pledged to triple military spending under US President Donald Trump’s pressure despite ongoing social and economic strains.

Biden has announced plans to supply new air defense systems to Ukraine in the coming months.

China has categorically opposed NATO's eastward movement into the Asia Pacific region, warning it will give a resolute response to any threat to its legitimate rights.

China totally taunts NATO’s threat of intrusion into the Asia-Pacific region, vowing a firm response against any peril to its legitimate rights.

In 1990, then-US Secretary of State James Baker told Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand “one inch to the east.” Since then, 19 countries have joined NATO, through nine different bid processes - encroaching on Russia’s border.

Senior Russian diplomats lash out at the US for pushing a publicity campaign to win public support for any “anti-Russia decisions” at the NATO summit in Lithuania.

The UK backs giving Ukraine a pathway to NATO membership amid division among member states.