{"id":3880,"date":"2020-07-16T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2020-07-16T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T06:36:01","slug":"u-s-back-nations-say-china-violated-east-vietnam-sea-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/u-s-back-nations-say-china-violated-east-vietnam-sea-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to back nations that say China violated their East Vietnam Sea claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WASHINGTON &#8212; U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States will support countries that believe China has violated their maritime claims in the East Vietnam\u00a0Sea but suggested it would do so through diplomatic rather than military means.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3881\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3881 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pompeo-1594866647-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 15, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe will support countries all across the world who recognize that China has violated their legal territorial claims as well \u2013 or maritime claims as well,\u201d Pompeo told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe will go provide them the assistance we can, whether that\u2019s in multilateral bodies, whether that\u2019s in ASEAN, whether that\u2019s through legal responses, we will use all the tools we can,\u201d he said at a news conference, referring to the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States on Monday\u00a0<strong>rejected China\u2019s claims<\/strong>\u00a0to offshore resources in most of the East Vietnam Sea, drawing criticism from China which said the U.S. position raised tension in the region, highlighting an increasingly testy relationship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday\u2019s statement reflected the first time the United States had taken the position that China\u2019s claims to the East Vietnam Sea were \u201ccompletely unlawful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has long opposed China\u2019s expansive territorial claims on the East Vietnam Sea, sending warships regularly through the strategic waterway to demonstrate freedom of navigation there. Monday\u2019s comments reflect a harsher tone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">China claims 90% of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea, but Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam also lay claim to parts of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, Vietnam\u2019s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Le Thi Thu Hang, said in response to the hardened U.S. rhetoric on the region that Vietnam welcomed any views on the East Vietnam Sea that were in accordance with international law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeace, stability, cooperation and development in the [East Vietnam] are the common aspirations and goals of countries in the region and the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source:\u00a0Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States will support countries that believe China has violated their maritime claims in the East Vietnam\u00a0Sea but suggested it would do so through diplomatic rather than military means. \u201cWe will support countries all across the world who recognize that China has violated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[2131,1650],"class_list":{"0":"post-3880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-asean","9":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}