Commentary: NATO's New Strategy Tried on Kosovo 　　Under the ultimatum from the NATO, the two sides of Kosovo conflict began to hold peace talks in a French town of Rambouillet. Meanwhile, US Defense Secretary William Cohen told Security Policy Conference in Munich that the NATO must be transformed into a union being able to deal with challenge coming from outside the territory of its members and can dispatch armed troops promptly at any time and any place. 　　It seems that two things with no-direct links have some internal logic: the NATO is testing its new strategic concept of the 21st century in Kosovo. 　　Kosovo crisis is a product of intensified national contradiction in Yugoslavia and an internal affair of this nation that should not be intervened by external powers. But the NATO, under the pretext of preventing the crisis from spreading to its peace partnership countries and refugee tides, issued an order to carry out military intervention in Kosovo. 　　It is the first time that the NATO adopted a military intervention decision to a non-member state since the end of World War II, which set an example of seriously affecting the existing international security order. 　　Now, the NATO will launch military attack against Yugoslavia once the peace talks fail to achieve results the Western World expected. 　　Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, NATO has lost its defense object and has no reason to continue to exist. But the United States actively urges the NATO to revise its strategic concept, and change NATO's responsibility from collective defense to coping with crisis collectively, so as to create a survival space for the NATO. 　　The Clinton administration spurs the NATO to develop globally and wants the NATO to be a tool of the United States which acts as a peacekeeper, mediator and police in world affairs. 　　Though some member states of the NATO disagree with the US concept, they cannot change the decision of the United States. 　　The NATO's new strategic concept is an important component of the United States' global strategy, which goes against the trend of post-Cold War period. 　　Strengthening military union in a world tending to relaxation can only pose threat to peace and stability. Giving up the Cold War thought, cultivating new security concept in line with the need of the time and seeking new method to keep peace is the right way. Opinion 1999-02-12 Page6 Full Story in Chinese