Washington and Beijing on Tuesday traded barbs amid reports that Chinese vessels were monitored to be swarming in areas belonging to the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea. READ:
Washington and Beijing on Tuesday traded barbs amid reports that Chinese vessels were monitored to be swarming in areas belonging to the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.
“As the Chinese proverb goes, ‘the sea desires calmness but the waves keep rolling.’ The US keeps meddling in the South China Sea disputes and trying to drive wedges between countries in the region, creating tensions and harming regional peace and stability. What the US has done is not to help anyone but to serve its own geopolitical interests.”“China’s stand on the South China Sea issue is consistent and clear-cut.
China earlier denied that it forcibly took the debris and said that it instead had a “friendly consultation” with the Philippine Navy. But a video played in the Senate in one of its sessions proved otherwise.Price said the United States stands with the Philippines,which it considers as one of its allies, “in upholding the rules-based international order and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea as guaranteed under international law.
Western Command chief Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos earlier confirmed that dozens of Chinese vessels have been moving closer to Palawan in recent months.
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