“We begin to touch on some of the key security issues that are important to all of us”.
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The former fishing vessel captain, who lives in the town of Tanmen, Hainan Province said he has always known it is precious but specialists say the information the book contains is “ironclad proof” of China’s sovereignty over Huangyan Island.
From left, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Barack Obama British Prime Minister David Cameron, and European Council President Donald Tusk walk to a tree planting ceremony in Japan, May 26, 2016.
Though no individual countries were mentioned, the contents of their declaration at the close of the annual summit appeared to be directed at China.
Wang noted that the G7 members are also members of the G20.
“As the G7 host, Japan is hyping up the South China Sea issue and fanning the flame of tensions”.
“Being two large developing countries in Asia, China and Indonesia have aligned development strategies and broad prospects for cooperation”, the report paraphrased Chang as telling Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu. “Other G7 leaders said it is necessary for G7 to issue a clear signal”.
“China’s construction in the South China Sea came later than other countries’ illegal activities in the region”, Hua said. “It is just another poor performance of Japan aiming to deliberately defame China”.
“I want to stress that given the complicated climate of the world economy, as a forum dedicated to discussing global economic issues, the G-7 should focus on economic and developmental matters of global concern”, Hua said.
In spite of the implications of the wording, considering China’s refusal to acknowledge UNCLOS in the overlapping claims over the South China Sea, the Japanese diplomat said the discussion was not meant to antagonise the East Asian giant.
China claims that countries as varied as Russia, Laos, Cambodia and Slovenia have lent their support to China’s approach, an attempt by Beijing to counter criticism of its rejection of a case brought before a United Nations tribunal by the Philippines challenging China’s territorial claims.
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The US military has conducted several “freedom of navigation” operations, in which planes or ships pass within a 12-nautical-mile buffer around the Chinese installations in the South China Sea, angering Beijing. Opening the first session of the summit on Thursday, Abe had said the Chinese positions on maritime claims amounted to “unilateral challenges” to the “international systems we have created”.
