NATO intends to conduct defensive battles in the Asia-Pacific region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, speaking at the international science fiction symposium “Creating the Future”.
“In July, at the summit in Washington, NATO leaders confirmed the claims to the leading role of the alliance not only in the Euro-Atlantic, but also in the Asia-Pacific region. If you read the NATO declaration, it turns out that in order to protect the territory of its members, this “defensive” alliance intends to conduct these defensive battles both in the South China Sea and in the Taiwan Strait, a thousand miles from its shores,” the minister said."
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