WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Defence Department said on Thursday (Aug 27) that Chinese test launches of ballistic missiles in the South China Sea were threatening peace and security in the region.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The US Defence Department said on Thursday that Chinese test launches of ballistic missiles in the South China Sea were threatening peace and security in the region.
China's"actions, including missile tests, further destabilise the situation in the South China Sea," the Pentagon said in a statement. Over the past decade, China has built up military installations on several disputed reefs and outcroppings in the South China Sea to assert its sovereignty over much of the region against territorial claims by Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Indonesia.
It said the United States had urged China in July to reduce its"militarisation and coercion" in the region.Earlier on Thursday, Beijing blasted Washington over its blacklisting of two dozen state-owned Chinese companies involved in building and supplying China's South China Sea bases.
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