“Beijing wants the USA to think that it can’t possibly match China’s commitment to these claims, and therefore China will do whatever it takes to stay on top of escalation, if anything were to occur”.
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Wu was quoted as saying that any attempt to intimidate China by flexing military muscle “will only backfire”.
In May, the Pentagon said two Chinese fighter jets made an “unsafe” intercept of a US spy plane in the South China Sea, coming so close that they forced the USA pilot to descend in order to avoid a collision.
The South China Sea has become a growing source of tension between China and the US “South China Sea disputes should not be seen as a “strategic competition” between China and the US either”, Cui wrote in the article.
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson visited Chinese North Sea Fleet headquarters, July 20 to meet with fleet commander Vice Adm. Yuan Yubai.
The protesters are angry about an worldwide tribunal ruling rejecting China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The 5-minute 23-second video shared by CCTV News, the English language news channel of China Central Television, on Twitter related how China was the first to discover, name and explore the resources in the South China Sea/West Philippine Sea. During a news conference Wednesday at the Chinese North Sea Fleet headquarters in Qingdao, Richardson said the “freedom of navigation” sails performed by US vessels to reiterate common access to the now built-up waterways will continue.
Liu Junli, chairman of Sanya International Cruise, a joint venture by COSCO Shipping, China National Travel Service (HK) Group Corp, said the company is already operating the “Dream of the South China Sea” cruise ship.
Freedom of navigation patrols carried out by foreign navies in the South China Sea could end “in disaster”, a senior Chinese admiral said over the weekend.
There has been no evidence of such widespread anger in China this time, though some reports have surfaced of people in generally third tier cities holding up banners in front of US fast food restaurants including Yum!
China says it wants direct talks with the Philippines over the dispute, but Manila says it won’t agree as long as Beijing continues to disregard the arbitration tribunal’s ruling.
“But I will be continuously reassessing my support conditioned on continued safe and professional interactions at sea”. “In this area, we must judge each other by our deeds and actions, not just by our words”.
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However, the global tribunal sided with the Philippines in ruling China’s claimed historic rights to resources within the so-called nine-dash line had no legal basis.
