In Blinken talks, China’s Wang Yi calls for Apec summit reset to US Indo-Pacific strategy
- The November forum in San Francisco is an ‘important opportunity’ to reconsider the contentious policy, China’s senior diplomat says
- In his three-hour meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Wang strikes cordial tone on bilateral cooperation in the region
In his highly anticipated talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, Wang said the strategy was “essentially an attempt to introduce great power rivalry in the Asia-Pacific region and create a confrontation between camps”.
The United States will play host to the leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in November, giving Washington an “important opportunity to reconsider and recalibrate” the Indo-Pacific strategy, according to Wang.
During the roughly three-hour meeting with Blinken in Beijing, Wang accused Washington of “changing the status quo of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region [and] undermining the harmony of Asia-Pacific countries as neighbours”.
US policies were also “distorting the production and supply chain in the region and weakening the Asean-centred regional cooperation framework”, Wang said, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement issued late on Monday night.