China says the latest U.S. move is aggravating tensions in the South China Sea

“The United States champions a free and open Indo-Pacific," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday in anon the State Department's website. "Today we are strengthening U.S. policy in a vital, contentious part of that region — the South China Sea. We are making clear: Beijing's claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them.

The South China Sea is a globally important shipping route, and according to think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies,High-level rhetoric between the U.S. and China has turned increasingly aggressive in recent months, amid a swath of issues ranging from technology and national security toOver the weekend, the U.S. issued a security alert for its citizens in China on

This is what CNBC labels as China filling the leadership.vacuum

I haveca sophisticated way of looking at China FUCK CHINA!

Trump encouraged China's encroachment into S. China Sea when abandoned TPP, a trade pact w/the region that excluded China. Then those countries did trade deal w/China, excluded US. Region lost confidence US would defend it vs. China.

Why? Its international waters.

Down with the American hegemonism!!!

China has been bullying its neighbors for a long time now, there is now a new Sheriff in the area,your move punks..

Yeah sounds like typical marxist communist ,community blame we got plenty of those in Democrat party.

Poor China 😔...

... and of course they have no responsibility n creating tht tension!? Next!

We should have never closed Subic Bay. They wouldn't be doing this if Subic was still in operation

Just trying to remind China that it doesn't own the entire waterway.

FlyNavy

CNBC hacks helping to promote CCP propaganda. What a shocker. POTUS will make China pay. ChineseVirus MAGA2020

Only hope we have is inthe US military

need to go kenetic on the chicoms.

Which they don't own.

Building islands out of nothing in other countries' waters & placing military there against their will is what's aggravating things in SCS What do I know? I'm just some idiot who thinks waters 50 miles from one country & 1000 from another probably belong to the one 50 miles away

China claiming territory is aggravating tensions in the South China Sea.

Tuff shit

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