BEIJING, April 10 (Tanjug) - The NATO military intervention in Yugoslavia surpasses by far the region of Europe, seriously imperilling the present world mechanism of security and the norms of international relations, the leading Chinese daily "Renmin Ribao" warns, today.

 The editorial of the newspaper states that this "dangerous international event" at the end of the century, has caused "great concern and consideration among all peace-loving countries and peoples throughout the world" and emphasizes that the NATO aggressions against Yugoslavia "directly concerns the issues of great importance" - what will the world embarking upon the 21st century be like.

 The NATO aggression against Yugoslavia is a proof of the fact that "the political gunboat from the period of colonialism has revamped and that the "law of the jungle" is back on the global scene". What is concerned here, as the newspaper explains is "the politics of heavy pressure (by America) which has extorted the employment of military force without much restraint, the imposition of a "consensus" on the intervention in a sovereign country or on the destruction of that country by military attacks".

 The most influential Chinese newspaper, however, considers that things will not develop in accordance with such "futile expectations by NATO and America". "NATO has morally lost in the issue of Kosovo"; its aggression against Yugoslavia will not be a positive circumstance for the NATO's "new strategic concept", and this concept "will never be able to change the main tendency of the modern world, which is characterized by peace and development", estimates the Chinese daily, suggesting that the countries supporting this tendency, must confront the NATO domination.

 The newspaper emphasizes that there is no way that the NATO's military intervention in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia can be justified under the pretext of "preventing a humanitarian plight". Explaining that there are deeper reasons for such aggressive behaviour by NATO, the newspaper cites that it centres around the effort of America to find its reasons for the existence of this military organization.

 "By losing NATO, the USA would lose their dominant position in the Euro-Atlantic strategy, whereby they would lose, to a great extent, their dominant position within the framework of security in Europe and the whole world". The USA tries to complete their spreading of NATO towards the East, before Russia recovers, the newspaper estimates.

 The so called "humanitarian intervention" by the USA and NATO in Kosovo is an evident expression of the "cold war mentality", the daily warns, which "draws a line in accordance with the system of Western values and strategic interests.

 "The supposed American strategic opponents and potential enemies, are the target of the attack and blocking", emphasizes the newspaper, in the context of which one can also discern the American behaviour in relation to China. Those who surrender are "good", and those who offer resistance "will be destroyed", the newspaper goes on to say, defining the essence of the American NATO violence and their attempt to introduce "the law of the jungle" in the international relations.

 At issue is America's "new interventionism", or the so called "globalization" on the tide of the cold war. "NATO insists on materializing its military presence in Yugoslavia, including its strategic objective to remove the obstacle to its breaking through towards the East which is aimed at reducing Russia's strategic space and getting a firm hold of a dominant position in the matters of European and world security", states the Chinese daily in explaining the real intentions of the planners of the criminal aggression against Yugoslavia. The comprehensive unification of the military and political function of NATO, actually means pushing the UN aside. The security system created after World War II has thereby been "seriously impaired", NATO has become "the instrument of a super power the aim of which is domination of the world", while the international community does not have an efficient mechanism of stopping this, warns the newspaper.

 The newspaper points to the fact that "NATO has launched the aggression under the pretext of protection of human rights, whereby the holy principle of inviolability of state sovereignty and territorial integrity has been violated". "The recognized standards of the international law have been trampled, and the cornerstone of the relations between the states has been shaken", assesses Renmin Ribao.