Russia warns US-led AUKUS, Quad 'detrimental' to Indo-Pacific cooperation

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denounced recently formed US-led Indo-Pacific alliances — AUKUS and Quad — describing them as "detrimental" to the existing system of cooperation in the region. Delivering a speech at the 29th Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy on Saturday, Lavrov said that all these alliances are aimed at undermining the traditional ways of cooperation between countries in the region, primarily the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). "One of the most fashionable trends today is the so-called Indo-Pacific strategies that are invented by the United States," in particular AUKUS and Quad, Lavrov…