Li Shangfu, head of the Chinese Ministry of Defense, said that the establishment of military alliances such as NATO in the Asia-Pacific region (APR) would plunge the APR into a vortex of conflict. It has been reported TASS.
“The main purpose of creating military alliances like NATO in the Asia-Pacific region is to take the countries of the region hostage and to fuel conflicts and confrontations. “Such attempts will only plunge the region into a whirlpool of division, discord and conflict,” said Li Shangfu.
He stressed that strategies should not be based on ideology and should aim at creating private military alliances “against imaginary threats.”
Former Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin declarationThat the United States is not trying to create a new Western security structure similar to NATO in the Asia-Pacific region (APR).
Before that, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had said that the North Atlantic Alliance would not accept Asian countries into its ranks.
According to him, NATO will remain an alliance of North America and Europe and will not be global.