China says it is firmly opposed to the US statement rejecting Beijing's claims in the South China Sea
US says Chinese claims to offshore resources across most of the contentious sea are"completely unlawful". Beijing says Washington trying to sabotage regional peace.
"The United States is not a country directly involved in the disputes. However, it has kept interfering in the issue," the embassy said. Pompeo's statement goes further by explicitly siding with Southeast Asian nations including the Philippines and Vietnam, after years of the United States saying it took no position on individual claims.
Beijing claims the majority of the South China Sea through the so-called nine-dash line, a delineation based on maps from the 1940s when the Republic of China snapped up islands from Japanese control. "Any PRC action to harass other states' fishing or hydrocarbon development in these waters –– or to carry out such activities unilaterally –– is unlawful," Pompeo said.Friction across fronts
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