“The US claims that it seeks to outcompete China but does not seek conflict,” Foreign Minister Qin Gang said Tuesday at his first news briefing since taking office late last year. “Yet in reality, its so-called competition aims to contain and suppress China in all respects and get the two countries locked in a zero-sum game.”
Washington’s approach toward Beijing “is a reckless gamble with the stakes being the fundamental interests of the two peoples and even the future of humanity,” he added. …
“The US Indo-Pacific strategy, which purportedly aims at upholding freedom and openness, maintaining security and promoting prosperity in the region, is in fact an attempt to gang up to form exclusive blocs to provoke confrontation by plotting an Asia-Pacific version of NATO,” Qin said. “No Cold War should be reignited and no Ukraine-style crisis should be repeated in Asia.”
[This sounds like a case of projection. Perhaps China could have avoided this by refraining from hacking US government computer systems and engaging in the Belt and Road project that does exactly what Qin accuses the US of doing, among other actions. — Ed]
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