“The Asia-Pacific is a promising land for cooperation and development, not a chessboard for geopolitical contest,” said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi raising the question why exactly is the US trying to create another NATO in the region?
The underlying purpose of the US policy in the Indo-Pacific area, according to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, is to construct a new incarnation of NATO, reminding the White House that any endeavor to do so would be blocked.
Wang cautioned Washington from behaving in a way that would produce unrest in the region amidst territorial disputes among China and other countries, speaking on the sidelines of the 13th National People's Congress on Monday.
“The Asia-Pacific is a promising land for cooperation and development, not a chessboard for geopolitical contest,” Wang said.
Critiquing the US, Wang said that the US strategy is primarily focused at maintaining supremacy in the region via "bloc politics," which Beijing appears to be...