The U.S. State Department said Monday that '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 United States champions a free and open Indo-Pacific," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday in anon the State Department's website. "Today we are strengthening U.S. policy in a vital, contentious part of that region — the South China Sea. We are making clear: 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 South China Sea is a globally important shipping route, and according to think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies,High-level rhetoric between the U.S. and China has turned increasingly aggressive in recent months, amid a swath of issues ranging from technology and national security toOver the weekend, the U.S. issued a security alert for its citizens in China on
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