VLADIVOSTOK, September 4. /TASS/. The United States uses Japan as a battering ram against China, Anton Kobyakov, an adviser to the Russian president and executive secretary of the Eastern Economic Forum organizing committee, said at a press briefing following the forum.

"However, everyone understands that Japan is a US battering ram against China," he said.

Kobyakov noted that as many as four military blocs had been created in the region.