China claims sovereignty over the vast majority of the economically important body of water, and in recent years, it has built artificial islands to bolster those claims. ( read original story …)
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U.S. Rejects Beijing’s Maritime Claims In South China Sea
South China Sea dispute: China’s pursuit of resources ‘unlawful’, says US
China’s pursuit of offshore resources in parts of the South China Sea are “completely unlawful”, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. Mr Pompeo said he wanted to make clear that Beijing’s … (…
Trump administration will reject most Chinese claims to waters in South China Sea, Pompeo says
The Trump administration on Monday rejected nearly all of China’s claims in the South China Sea – wading into one of the most sensitive regional issues in Asia and further escalating tensions between … (…
Pompeo: U.S. to Take a Stand Against China in South China Sea
Pompeo’s surprise statement came four years and a day after a 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that sided against China in a case regarding territorial disputes also … (…
Raising stakes, US brands China claims in South China Sea illegal
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the United States would treat Beijing’s pursuit of resources in the dispute-rife South China Sea as illegal, ramping up support for Southeast Asian … ( read original…
China Live Doubles Down on Delivery, Will Drop Its Sheng Jian Bao All Over the Bay Area
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The US is officially rejecting Beijing’s disputed claims to most of the South China Sea and its ‘predatory’ moves to impose them
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that “the PRC’s predatory world view has no place in the 21st century.” … ( read original story …)
China’s military has become one of the world’s most powerful, but the US still has one big advantage
Decades of modernization can’t give the Chinese military skills that the US has spent two decades using in real-world conditions. ( read original story …)
China Carries Out First Coronavirus-Related Execution
China put a 24-year-old man who fatally stabbed two inspectors at a checkpoint to death in the country’s first coronavirus-related execution. Ma Jianguo was executed Thursday by officials in Honghe … ( read original story…
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Pompeo says Beijing claims in South China Sea ‘unlawful’
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the United States would treat Beijing’s pursuit of resources in the dispute-rife South China Sea as illegal, ramping up pressure on another front. “We … ( read…
Pompeo formally rejects Beijing’s claims in South China Sea
“Beijing’s claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them,” the secretary said in a statemen … ( read original story…
The U.S. just ramped up its opposition to Beijing’s South China Sea claims
The United States has previously said it considers Beijing’s territorial claims over most of the South China unlawful, but Washington has officially remained neutral, refusing to pick a side … ( read original story …)
