JAKARTA (Reuters) – China’s overseas minister Wang Yi warned on Monday that international locations in Southeast Asia should keep away from getting used as “chess pieces” by main powers throughout a coverage speech within the Indonesian capital.
Talking on the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariat in Jakarta, Wang mentioned that many international loc ations within the area had been beneath stress to take sides in a area prone to being “reshaped by political factors”.
“We should insulate this region from geopolitical calculations… from being used as chess pieces from major power rivalry and from coercion,” he mentioned, including: “The future of our region should be in our own hands.”
(Reporting by Ryan Woo in Beijing; Writing by Kate Lamb; Enhancing by Ed Davies)
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