SINGAPORE - The US is trying to create an Asia-Pacific version of NATO through its Indo-Pacific strategy to maintain its hegemony in the region, a Chinese defense official has said, stressing that Washington will continue its " Trying to serve selfish" geopolitical interests. Doomed to failure”.
The comments by Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, came in response to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's speech during the Shangri La Dialogue on Saturday, in which he called for strengthening alliances and partnerships. In the entire area.
The Shangri La Dialogue, held annually in Singapore, is Asia's premier defense summit.
Lieutenant-General Jing warned that if regional countries sign up to the US Indo-Pacific strategy, they will be tied to the "US war chariot" and tempted to "take bullets for the US".He described Austin's comments as "rhetoric" that "sounds good but serves no purpose", serves "selfish US geopolitical interests" and is "doomed to fail".
"The real objective is to merge the smaller circle into the larger circle of an Asia-Pacific version of NATO to maintain US-led dominance," Jing, a member of the Chinese delegation, said on Saturday.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
The Indo-Pacific strategy is creating division and conflict, he said.
The Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region encompassing the western and central Pacific Ocean, including the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.The US Indo-Pacific Strategy is the country's vision for a free, open, connected, prosperous, resilient, and secure Indo-Pacific region in which all countries are empowered to adapt to the challenges of the 21st century and take advantage of its many opportunities. .
China claims almost all of the South China Sea, although Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam claim parts of it.
The US and several other world powers are talking about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific against the backdrop of China's growing military assertiveness in the resource-rich region.
The comments by Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, came in response to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's speech during the Shangri La Dialogue on Saturday, in which he called for strengthening alliances and partnerships. In the entire area.
The Shangri La Dialogue, held annually in Singapore, is Asia's premier defense summit.
Lieutenant-General Jing warned that if regional countries sign up to the US Indo-Pacific strategy, they will be tied to the "US war chariot" and tempted to "take bullets for the US".He described Austin's comments as "rhetoric" that "sounds good but serves no purpose", serves "selfish US geopolitical interests" and is "doomed to fail".
"The real objective is to merge the smaller circle into the larger circle of an Asia-Pacific version of NATO to maintain US-led dominance," Jing, a member of the Chinese delegation, said on Saturday.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
The Indo-Pacific strategy is creating division and conflict, he said.
The Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region encompassing the western and central Pacific Ocean, including the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.The US Indo-Pacific Strategy is the country's vision for a free, open, connected, prosperous, resilient, and secure Indo-Pacific region in which all countries are empowered to adapt to the challenges of the 21st century and take advantage of its many opportunities. .
China claims almost all of the South China Sea, although Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam claim parts of it.
The US and several other world powers are talking about the need to ensure a free, open and thriving Indo-Pacific against the backdrop of China's growing military assertiveness in the resource-rich region.
