On March 7, 2022, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared in an annual press conference that the United States should not entertain building  a “Pacific version of NATO to protect Taiwan, because the situations in Ukraine and Taiwan were completely different.”

Wang asserted that the US is in the process of rolling out an Indo-Pacific strategy to prevent China from accomplishing one of its primary geopolitical goals. Namely, China’s goal of reunifying the island nation of Taiwan.

Bloomberg reported the following: Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his annual news briefing Monday that the “real goal” of the U.S.’s Indo-Pacific strategy was to form Asia’s answer to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. China has often accused the U.S. of trying to form blocs to suppress its growth, a complaint that’s likely to attract greater attention after President Vladimir Putin cited similar grievances before his invasion of Ukraine.