China could use Russia to attack NATO in order to divert U.S. attention from the Indo-Pacific region and try to take over Taiwan, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in an interview with The New York Times. "Let's not be naive: if Xi Jinping decides to attack Taiwan, he will first call his junior partner in all of this, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who lives in Moscow, and say, 'Listen, I'm going to do this, and I need you to distract their attention in Europe by attacking NATO territory,'"b he said.