BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stated China's position on the U.S. advancement of the so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy" during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Monday.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, stressed that the so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy" is essentially about bringing major-country rivalry to and creating camp-based confrontation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Noting U.S. actions have changed the status quo of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, undermined the way by which Asia-Pacific countries get along in harmony as neighbors, distorted the industrial and supply chains in the region, and weakened the ASEAN-centered regional cooperation architecture, Wang said that the United States has turned away from an open and inclusive regional policy, and is moving toward an exclusive and divisive one, which runs counter to the overarching trend toward prosperity and development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Hosting this year's APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting is an important opportunity for the U.S. side to rethink and recalibrate its Asia-Pacific policy, Wang said, adding that China is ready to work with the United States to explore a way for constructive interaction in the Asia-Pacific, and hopes that the United States will play its role as the host of APEC and work with China to enable Asia-Pacific cooperation to return to the right direction. ■
