US accuses Beijing of using coronavirus as cover for South China Sea activity

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Following the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat, Washington calls on Beijing to ‘stop exploiting’ the pandemic to pursue its claims in the regionState department spokesman says US is ‘seriously concerned’ by reports of the incident

In a strongly worded statement, the US State Department gave Washington’s view of last week’s collision of a Chinese coastguard ship and a Vietnamese fishing vessel near the disputed Paracel Islands.

The statement also pointed out that, since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, Beijing had announced new research stations on its military bases at Fiery Cross Reef and Subi Reef, and landed special military aircraft on Fiery Cross Reef. The report made no mention of the sinking of the Vietnamese fishing boat but said Li had stressed “China and Vietnam are important neighbours to each other”.in 2020, would continue to make “positive efforts” to push for the development of relations between China and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

 

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