WASHINGTON: China is taking a leaf out of Pakistan’s book in covering casualties in its border clash with India so as to not irritate domestic popular opinion even as its misadventure, coming on the heels of the coronavirus pandemic it exported, has actually solidified United States and world viewpoint on Beijing.
In a hard response to China’s growing aggression in the area, the Trump administration on Tuesday candidly stated that Beijing’s “predatory world view has no place in the 21 st century,” while rejecting its claims to offshore resources in the South China Sea and its depredations beyond it. The declaration appeared to echo Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion directed at Beijing that “the age of expansion is over”
” The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire. We stand with the international neighborhood in de