BEIJING: China on Sunday launched a broadside against the Indo-Pacific strategy of the US ahead of the summit of Quad leaders in Japan, saying that it is “bound to fail” as it is vigorously promoted by Washington to “contain” Beijing. The “Indo-Pacific strategy” is causing more and more vigilance and concern in the international community, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said when asked about it at his joint press conference with Pakistan counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. The Quad summit will be held in Tokyo on May 24 in which US President Joe Biden, PM Narendra Modi along with his counterparts from Japan and Australia will take part. China refers to the area as Asia-Pacific region and is averse to the Indo-Pacific strategic concept.
“The Asia-Pacific should become a plateau for peaceful development, rather than a geopolitical arena. Attempts to turn the Asia-Pacific into a bloc, Nato will never succeed,” said Wang. The Quad grouping of the US, Japan, India and Australia focuses on free and open Indo-Pacific while Beijing likens it to “Asian Nato” aimed to contain its rise. The US, India and several other world powers have been talking about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China’s rising military manoeuvring in the resource-rich region.
Wang said that the Indo-Pacific strategy “cooked up” by the US, in the name of “freedom and openness”, is keen on forming “cliques”. China claims that the grouping intends to “change China’s surrounding environment”. Its purpose is to contain China and make Asia-Pacific countries serve as “pawns” of the US hegemony, Wang said. “Try to mess up other regions and then mess up the Asia-Pacific region as well. Facts will prove that the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific Strategy’ is in essence a strategy of creating division… No matter how much it is packaged or disguised, it will inevitably fail in the end. The people of this region should tell the US that the outdated Cold War scenario should never be repeated in Asia…,” he said.
“The Asia-Pacific should become a plateau for peaceful development, rather than a geopolitical arena. Attempts to turn the Asia-Pacific into a bloc, Nato will never succeed,” said Wang. The Quad grouping of the US, Japan, India and Australia focuses on free and open Indo-Pacific while Beijing likens it to “Asian Nato” aimed to contain its rise. The US, India and several other world powers have been talking about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific in the backdrop of China’s rising military manoeuvring in the resource-rich region.
Wang said that the Indo-Pacific strategy “cooked up” by the US, in the name of “freedom and openness”, is keen on forming “cliques”. China claims that the grouping intends to “change China’s surrounding environment”. Its purpose is to contain China and make Asia-Pacific countries serve as “pawns” of the US hegemony, Wang said. “Try to mess up other regions and then mess up the Asia-Pacific region as well. Facts will prove that the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific Strategy’ is in essence a strategy of creating division… No matter how much it is packaged or disguised, it will inevitably fail in the end. The people of this region should tell the US that the outdated Cold War scenario should never be repeated in Asia…,” he said.
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