China: Asia-Pacific a region for cooperation, not games

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BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are not "chess pieces in geopolitical competition", and the United States should give up its Cold War mentality and "small groups for confrontation in the Indo-Pacific" region, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin (pic) said.

Wang made the remarks on Monday after the US announced it would host a US-Asean Special Summit on May 12 and 13 in Washington, which Asean said is the second bilateral special summit since 2016 and the first in-person engagement for Asean and US leaders since 2017.