Later, Jens Stoltenberg, acting as Secretary General of NATO, actually expressed concern regarding China being able to supply weapons to Moscow. This was conveyed after the meeting which discussed plans to increase the supply of Western ammunition to Ukraine.
As is known, China itself is one of the countries that has a strong military. Not inferior to NATO member countries, they also have a lot of active personnel, as well as qualified and sophisticated weaponry. The following is a comparison of military strength between NATO and China.
Baca: Following the US, NATO is worried that China will supply weapons for Russia
1. NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is made up of about 30 countries, including the United States. Quoting the Statista page, Wednesday (22/2/2023), in 2002 NATO had more than 5 million military personnel, 5,045,700 to be precise.
Of these figures, active personnel reached 3,366,000 people. While the rest are reserve troops of 1,301,000 troops, as well as paramilitary units which reach 738,700.
Turning to the land weapons sector, NATO has 14,682 battle tanks, 115,855 armored vehicles, 5,040 self-propelled artillery, 5,495 artillery towers, and 2,803 rocket launchers.
In the air dimension, they have 3,527 interceptor aircraft, 1,048 ground attack aircraft, 1,543 transport aircraft, 1,014 reconnaissance aircraft, 8,485 helicopters, and 1,359 combat helicopters.
