WASHINGTON: The United States on Saturday (Apr 29) called on China to stop harassing Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, pledging to stand with the Philippines at a time of simmering geopolitical tension. 'We call upon Beijing to desist from its provocative and unsafe conduct,' the US State Departme
WASHINGTON: The United States on Saturday called on China to stop harassing Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, pledging to stand with the Philippines at a time of simmering geopolitical tension.
close to the Philippines-held Second Thomas Shoal, a flashpoint for previous altercations located 105 nautical miles off its coast. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea with a"nine-dash line" on maps that stretches more than 1,500 km off its mainland and cuts into the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. An international arbitral ruling in 2016 dismissed that line as having no legal basis.
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