December 26, 2020

To deal with the US’ Indo-Pacific Strategy that targets China, China should try to stimulate the potential for regional economic cooperation, increase countries’ interdependence in the region and pay more attention to promote anti-virus cooperation in the context of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese experts said at an online seminar themed on analyzing different countries’ Indo-Pacific strategies on Saturday. 

At the seminar organized by the Global Engagement Academy of Shandong University, Weihai, ten Chinese scholars discussed via video links the nature and purpose of the US’ Indo-Pacific Strategy, different countries’ attitudes toward the strategy and offered suggestions on how China should respond to it.

Jia Wenshan, dean of the Global Engagement Academy, said the American elites hope the 21st century will be the American Century and the Indo-Pacific Strategy in essence is a strategy to sustain US hegemony in Asia and draw in countries including India to contain China’s rise and prevent it from becoming a new center of power in Asia. 

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