Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a press conference in Berlin. Yi has called for restraint in the war in Ukraine. Michael Sohn/AP pool/dpa
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has accused the US of trying to build a defence alliance similar to NATO with its Asian allies in the Indo-Pacific region.
"The US professes the desire to advance regional cooperation, but in reality it is stoking rivalry," Wang told a press conference on Monday on the occasion of the ongoing annual session of the Chinese People's Congress in Beijing.
"It talks a lot about returning to multilateralism, in reality it is forming exclusive clubs ... the real goal of the Indo-Pacific strategy is to establish a Indo-Pacific version of NATO," Wang said.
The phrase "exclusive clubs" is usually used by China to criticize bloc policies.
