China News Service, Beijing, May 25 (Reporter Guo Chaokai Zhang Su) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on the 25th.

　　A reporter asked: The United States has officially announced the launch of the "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework".

Senior U.S. officials said that the "framework" will become an important platform for the United States to strengthen economic ties with "Indo-Pacific" countries, providing the region with alternatives to China, and member states will grow into more reliable partners of the United States.

what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?

　　Wang Wenbin: On May 23, the day the US announced the launch of the "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework", I have already introduced China's principled position on this issue.

Since you mentioned this issue, I would like to say a few more words here.

　　The US claims to ensure that the US will win the competition in the 21st century through the "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework", which fully shows that this "framework" serves the US economy first and foremost.

Over the years, the United States has been absent from Asia-Pacific economic cooperation, withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and did not participate in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). It is entirely based on the self-interest of the United States, "use it if it fits, and discard it if it doesn't fit."

Now the United States proposes the "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework", but it is just starting anew to serve its own interests.

　　This "framework" also serves to advance U.S. geostrategy.

The "framework" is exclusive in the name of cooperation, attempting to establish U.S.-led trade rules, reorganize the industrial chain system, and "decouple" regional countries from the Chinese economy.

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce publicly stated that the "framework" marks an important turning point for the United States to re-establish regional economic leadership and provide regional countries with an alternative to China.

Many countries in the region are worried about this and believe that "decoupling" with China will cost a lot.

Everyone will see clearly that the "Indo-Pacific Economic Framework" is a design to disrupt regional cooperation and a tool to coerce regional countries.

　　Although the "framework" includes many regional countries, the content of the "framework" does not care about the development level and actual needs of regional countries, and there are no arrangements for tariff exemptions and market access, but to force countries to accept the so-called high standards of the United States.

We can't help but ask, what are the interests of the other parties involved?

If the "framework" cannot really help promote the common development of countries in the region, it will not go far.

　　The Asia-Pacific region is a highland of peaceful development and should not become a chess game for geopolitical games.

Any initiative that is truly beneficial to regional development should still comply with the principles of openness, inclusiveness, mutual benefit and win-win results, rather than artificially erecting barriers and creating divisions and confrontations, which is also a common aspiration of regional countries.

China is willing to work with countries in the region to practice genuine multilateralism, build an open regional economy, and jointly build a beautiful Asia-Pacific homeland.

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