China rejects any U.S. involvement and insists it has the right to continue the reclamation projects.
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The US talks about the ASEAN as its pivot to the East, the analyst said. However, some of the ministers present stated that the issue was too important to ignore.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he’s hopeful that China and its smaller neighbors can come to an effective resolution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
The official said Kerry had “encouraged” China, and the other claimants, “to halt problematic actions in order to create space for diplomacy”.
On Wednesday, Wang said the land reclamation had stopped.
“It is not just an issue of reclamation”, Kerry told reporters after his comments to the ministers.
A US diplomat also said Kerry would meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov later Wednesday to “discuss a range of?issues of mutual concern”. But he did not commit Beijing to abandoning, or halting construction on, the artificial islands already formed.
Stated Jose: “At the same time, China announced they are moving on to Phase 2, which is the construction of facilities on the reclaimed features”.
Mr Wang bristled when asked about calls for China to temporarily stop the building of artificial islands for what US military chiefs claim are mainly for combat and intelligence gathering purposes.
Beijing said that the two sides have agreed to adopt a dual-track approach in resolving the South China Sea issue.
In a front page commentary on the overseas edition of the Communist Party’s official People’s Daily, a senior academic said that the US was teaming up with Japan to “disrupt” the South China Sea. He did not elaborate.
But it’s not the United States’ business but they think it is their business, he added.
Officials from Asean nations cautioned that there is a gap between pledges by China to defuse tensions and the situation on the ground.
“China is always committed to working with the countries concerned to resolve disputes through peaceful negotiation”, Wang told Kerry, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry.
China, Taiwan and several ASEAN members – the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei – have wrangled over ownership and control of the South China Sea in a conflict that has flared on and off for decades.
“We will agree to be bound only if China and other claimant states agree to the same”.
Before their meeting, Kerry had said he and Wang would also discuss a range of bilateral issues including plans for a September US visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping and China’s “great cooperation” on the recent Iran nuclear deal.
The United States and Southeast Asian nations have called for a halt to further land-reclamation and … The April statement said Asean leaders have “serious concerns” about land reclamation in the sea, noting that it “has eroded trust and confidence and may undermine peace, security and stability”. He said the disputes must be managed peacefully on the basis of global law.
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Current satellite tv for pc photographs present China has virtually completed constructing a three, 000-metre-long (10,000-foot) airstrip on one of many islands.
