According to Lavrov, NATO came up with the term "Indo-Pacific region" specifically to try to "lure India into their networks."
“In other words, they don’t even hide it especially: the next line of defense of this “defensive” alliance will lie in the South China Sea,” he said.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that China had already been identified in the final documents of the NATO summit in Madrid as the main, systemic, long-term challenge.
Lavrov spoke about NATO plans to draw a "line of defense" in the South China Sea
Earlier, Lavrov said that the meaning of the existence of NATO, by and large, was lost when the USSR and the Warsaw Pact disappeared.