Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized efforts he said were aimed at “containing” Russia and China, Moscow’s state media said on Tuesday during his visit to Beijing.
Lavrov was given a red-carpet welcome after he arrived in the Chinese capital, photographs released by the Russian Foreign Ministry showed. He later met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
Lavrov warned of “some very, very dangerous games going on” in East Asian geopolitical hotspots that included Taiwan, the disputed South China Sea and the nuclear-armed Korean peninsula, according to quotes from the meeting with Wang published by state-run RIA Novosti.
In comments apparently referring to the United States and its allies, Lavrov said “they are trying to dismantle (regional cooperation) by creating small-format, bloc-based structures aimed at containing both the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation”. AFP
