In this file photo handled October 21, 2016, the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) runs in the South China Sea as part of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group|Image Credit:
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” We are explaining: Beijings declares to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them,” said Pompeo.
The United States on Monday declined China’s disputed claims to offshore resources in the majority of the South China Sea, a relocation that Beijing criticised as prompting tensions in the area and which highlighted a progressively testy relationship.
China has actually provided no coherent legal basis for its aspirations in the South China Sea and for years has been using intimidation against other Southeast Asian seaside states, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated in a declaration.
” We are making clear: Beijings declares to offshore resources throughout most of the South Chin