JAKARTA - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Monday that countries in South-east Asia must avoid being used as"chess pieces" by major powers during a policy speech in the Indonesian capital.
JAKARTA - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Monday that countries in South-east Asia must avoid being used as"chess pieces" by major powers during a policy speech in the Indonesian capital.
Speaking at the Asean secretariat in Jakarta, Mr Wang said that many South-east Asian countries were under pressure to take sides in a region at risk of 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 said.
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