(Clockwise, from far left) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,
US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) summit in Tokyo on May 24, 2022. XINHUA PHOTO
BEIJING: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech on May 26 on the Biden administration's China policy. Not surprisingly, Blinken talked about America's vision for its "Indo-Pacific strategy" to build an "open, connected, prosperous, resilient and secure Indo-Pacific region." However, this strategy will hardly get anywhere because it is defined by bloc confrontation, a Cold War mentality and selfish geopolitical calculation.