China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi this week used his annual news briefing to claim the U.S. aims to form Asia’s answer to the NATO, and that America’s behavior was “doomed to fail.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi this week used his annual news briefing to claim the U.S. aims to form Asia’s answer to the NATO, and that America’s behavior was “doomed to fail.
(Bloomberg) Below is the complete transcript of the live blog event “China Warns Against Indo-Pacific NATO: Q&A”, it has blog entries in the order they were…
BEIJING (Bloomberg): China’s concern that the US is seeking to build an "Indo-Pacific version of Nato” has one major problem: A previous effort failed in the 1970s, and most Asian countries haven’t been interested in trying again.
Southeast Asia’s modern-day foreign policy is mostly aimed at avoiding becoming a battleground in great-power competitions, as occurred during the Vietnam War and other bloody conflicts.