Vice President Kamala Harris will become the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Palawan, an island of the Philippines, as part of her latest trip to Asia. Here’s why she’s going.
The territorial claims in the South China Sea are complex and overlapping. Beijing's claim, shown here as a thick red dotted line, is often represented on Chinese maps with nine long dashes — hence the term"nine-dash line."These are the approximate claims by China and other countries. In many cases, countries are intentionally vague about the extent of their claims.
The stop comes after Harris met leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Bangkok over the weekend — including a brief conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping. President Biden met with Xi in Bali on the sidelines of the G-20 summit a week ago.
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