China has termed the flexing of muscles by outside countries the “greatest threat to peace and stability” and the reason for tensions in the South China Sea.
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Woody Island is China’s administrative base for islands and reefs it controls in the South China Sea.
Asserting that China is willing to further boost the anti-terrorism cooperation between the two sides, Chang said the country will push forward the exchange and cooperation between its Southern Theater Command and the armies of ASEAN countries.
Beijing fears that the G-7 leaders will take a sternly worded position on Chinese moves in the South China Sea in their summit declaration, USA and Chinese diplomatic sources say.
Gao Zhiguo, director of the China Institute for Marine Development Strategy, who used to serve as a judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, said: “It is ironclad proof….” She added that China hopes similar embargos will also be lifted, a possible reference to the continuing weapons embargo imposed by the USA and the European Union following China’s 1989 bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
The incident took place in global airspace last week as the plane carried out “a routine US patrol”, the Pentagon said.
What’s preventing that from happening is not anything we’re doing.
US Air ForceSilhouettes of fighter jets. “We do these around the world against a lot of these excessive claims”.
According to the 2015 report, the USA formally conducted freedom of navigation operations as a way of challenging excessive claims made by 13 countries during the budget year ending September 30.
Carter focused on the Asia-Pacific region Friday in his commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy.
China has warned the Group of Seven (G7) countries against holding talks that it argues could worsen tensions in the South China Sea. The People’s Republic has upset numerous players in the region by building infrastructure and military projects on some of the contested islands and has demanded nearly all of the South China Sea.
That call came ahead of a ruling expected within weeks on China’s claims brought by the Philippines to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.
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“All relevant disputes should be resolved peacefully through friendly negotiations and agreements between the parties concerned, without internationalization or external interference”, the ministry said in an online press note.
