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Chinese Foreign Minister: US Indo-Pacific Strategy ‘Doomed to Fail’

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said today that the US strategy in the Indo-Pacific region is “doomed to fail”, while President Joe Biden is in the region to deal with China’s rise and influence, according to the report. Bloomberg.

“The facts will prove that the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific strategy’ is essentially a strategy of dividing, a strategy of inciting conflict and a strategy of destroying peace,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Wang’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart.

On his first trip to Asia as US president, Biden met with newly elected South Korean leader Yoon Sook Yol. On Monday, he will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, and the next day will be followed by a Quad summit with Japan, Australia and India.

Biden also plans to present the Indo-Pacific strategy at an event that will include appearances by other leaders from the region. The IPEF (Indo-Pacific Economic Framework) is key to the Biden administration’s efforts to address China’s influence in Asia, following the US withdrawal from talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement under former President Donald Trump.

IPEF pillars include clean energy, supply chain resilience, carbon and infrastructure dependence, and taxation and the fight against corruption. The United States has not listed the original countries that will join the IPEF agreement, but said most are expected to sign in the coming months.

Last week, a group of more than 50 U.S. senators urged Biden in a letter to include Taiwan as an IPEF partner.

U.S. Trade Representative Kathryn Tai met with Taiwanese Foreign Minister John Deng on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting in Bangkok last week to discuss ways to deepen economic ties, even as China’s top diplomat Washington that it is going in the “wrong direction” with its support for the island.

The US strategy “is under the banner of freedom and openness”, but they want to ally and create “small circles” in an effort to contain China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement today.

Source: Capital

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