The United States is stirring up confrontation for its selfish purposes by making false accusations against China at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a Chinese military official said on Saturday.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, said U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is trying to consolidate the U.S. hegemonic position and provoke bloc confrontation by advocating the Indo-Pacific strategy in his speeches.

The Biden administration laid out the strategy in February 2022, which looks to commit more diplomatic and security resources to the region in a bid to, as many see it, counter China's regional influence.

Jing referred to that goal as "U.S. supremacy," saying the strengthening of army deployment and constant military drills by Washington have de facto destabilized the peace and stability of the region.

"They've ignored the actual request for stability (from countries in the region) and shot their gun from someone else's shoulder through luring and coercion," Jing said.

Some experts CGTN spoke to echoed the comments, saying the U.S. really induces the region's "NATO-ization" to curb China multilaterally.

"Preserving its own hegemony is the real intention behind the U.S. quest for leadership and the strengthening of alliance. In the U.S. view, hegemony is its greatest core interest and international strategic goal," Ling Shengli, a U.S. expert at China Foreign Affairs University, told CGTN.

(Cover: Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, speaks to media in Singapore, June 3, 2023. /CMG)