The implicit message from the new non-aligned is straightforward: Why should we care about a territorial conflict in Europe when you Europeans fail to act decisively on Palestine, Kashmir, or territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas? Instead, many of these countries are calling on the West to de-escalate the crisis and, as an official Chinese foreign-ministry statement advocated, to “exercise restraint and refrain from raising tensions.”
新不结盟运动的潜台词是显而易见的：你们欧洲人在巴勒斯坦、克什米尔和中国东海和南海的领土纠纷中都没有采取决定性行动，我们为什么要关心欧洲的领土冲突？反之，这些国家中许多人要求西方遏制危机升级并且，正如中国外交部的一份正式声明所言，“保持克制，避免紧张局面加剧。”