Lavrov declared the desire of the United States to "quarrel Moscow and Beijing"

The text of the article is posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

He noted that the United States "stubbornly seeks to mobilize essentially all of its external partners to deter Russia and China."

“At the same time, they do not hide the desire to embroil Moscow and Beijing, to upset and undermine multilateral associations and regional integration structures developing outside American control in Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region,” the Foreign Minister said.

Previously, the head of the Pentagon, Mark Esper, said that Russia is the largest US security challenge in the near future.