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A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Friday slammed a senior US military officer for accusing China of being a "disruptor" in the Indo-Pacific region, adding that the country has always insisted on a peaceful path.
China advocates a new type of international relations involving mutual trust, win-win cooperation and fairness and justice, and that efforts to build such relations should not upset any one or any country that loves peace and looks for mutual development, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said at a daily briefing on Friday.
Lu made the remarks after a senior US military officer called China a "disruptor" in the Indo-Pacific region.
"The reality is that China is a disruptive transitional force in the region," Harry Harris, Commander of the US Pacific Command (PACOM), said Thursday at a panel discussion together with senior Japanese, Australia and Indian military officers in New Delhi, India Today newspaper reported.
"What on Earth are [they] worrying about, and that China is a disruptor of what?" Lu said when asked to comment at the daily briefing.
"China has always taken the road of peaceful development. That's what we have said and done," the spokesperson said.
According to Indian media reports, the session was sponsored by the Indian government and the dais was shared by navy officers from the "Quad" of the US, India, Japan and Australia.
For the first time, a diplomatic representative from Indonesia was also present to dispel any impression that the "Quad" was ganging up against China, Times of India newspaper reported.
Several US and European scholars expressed discontent after the session, which derailed the original agenda and became a discussion of how to build a military ally and a military-based marine order, Zhang Jiadong, a professor at Fudan University's Center for American Studies who attended the session on Thursday, told the Global Times on Friday.
If a new marine order is built on a military alliance and excludes countries outside of the alliance, it's a Cold War marine order and contradicts with other countries' needs and interests in the context of globalization, Zhang said.
(GLOBAL TIMES)
