Qingdao, June 26 -- The anti-Russian and anti-Chinese blocs that the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries are creating in the Asia-Pacific region have a destructive impact on regional stability, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said on Thursday.
"In the Asia-Pacific region, the activities of certain states to create closed, anti-Chinese and anti-Russian bloc structures have a destructive impact on stability," Belousov said at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense ministers held in China's Qingdao.
Among such structures, Belousov specifically named the trilateral defense alliance AUKUS (Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States) and the Trilateral Pact (the United States, South ...