Posted on 10/07/2013 9:44:24 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
China said on Monday the United States, Australia and Japan should not use their alliance as an excuse to intervene in territorial disputes in the East China Sea and South China Sea, and urged them to refrain from inflaming regional tensions.
On Friday, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the maritime disputes during a trilateral strategic dialogue in Bali, Indonesia.
Relations between China and Japan, the world’s second- and third-largest economies, have been troubled in recent years by a row over tiny, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
In the South China Sea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and China are involved in long-standing sovereignty disputes over the potentially oil- and gas-rich island chain.
A joint statement from the U.S.-Japan-Australia meeting opposed “coercive or unilateral actions” that could change the status quo in the East China Sea and called on claimants to maritime disputes in the South China Sea to refrain from destabilising actions, according to the State Department website.
“The United States, Japan and Australia are allies but this should not become an excuse to interfere in territorial disputes, otherwise it will only make the problems more complicated and harm the interests of all parties,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday.
“We urge the relevant countries to respect facts, distinguish right from wrong, be cautious, and stop all words and deeds that are not beneficial to the proper handling of the issue and undermine regional stability,” she said in comments on the ministry website.
The U.S.-Japan-Australia meeting took place on the sidelines of an annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Separately, another Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, voiced China’s opposition to Kishida’s raising of maritime security at an informal breakfast meeting with foreign ministers, saying that it has long been considered inappropriate to discuss issues of political security or sensitive and controversial topics at APEC.
“There has not been a problem with freedom and security of navigation in this region for a long time,” Qin said in another statement released late on Sunday.
“Playing up so-called maritime security issue goes against real efforts for the freedom and security of navigation.”
Right.......When China speaks...everyone listens...Right
Just two of China’s coastal cities has a larger population than all of Australia.
Just eleven of China’s coastal cities has a larger population than all of Australia.
CHina’s total coastal population is greater than the total costal population of all N.American/S.America/Australasia coastal populations combined.
And why shouldn’t the non-Chinese populations on the Pacific group together to defend themselves against the Chinese masses and huge naval/shipping/fishing/maritime fleets?
You chicoms STFU or we will default on your communist arses... hell we may anyway.
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Just eleven of China’s coastal cities has a larger population than all of Japan.
Oh no, China is upset that its provocative action in the area MIGHT result in a backlash? The Chicom leaders and PLAN better stop smoking dope and do a reality check.
“...urged them to refrain from inflaming regional tensions.”
LOL! China inflames regional tensions by expanding their military well beyond self defense and by claiming areas that were largely settled, then they warn Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc. to not inflame tensions.
China is on the move. They have a nationalistic, expansionist fervor. Too bad the USA is led by a community organizer and his cabal of left-wing professors. They are completely out of their league, and China (and the world) knows it. This is not likely to end well.
Its bad but I do remember that the United States led the moves to open up China in the 1970’s starting with RIchard NixOn and Henry Kissinger.
And look what China was become 40 years later....
It’s possible that China was going to rise no matter what Nixon, Clinton, and others did, but that doesn’t mean they had to help speed the process. China is, after all, the most populous country in the world, and we’re the only nation in the world that can balance their growing power. Too bad we’re turned inward.
Because Free Trade with Communist China worrrkksss....ask any Free Trade Commie supporting Free Trade with Communist China
China is also attempting to bully it’s smaller neighbors to negotiate - one on one, not multilaterally with it in territorial disputes in the neighboring seas - translation: to let themselves get picked-off, one by one, instead of demanding a common set of standards for settling all such disagreements in their common neighboring seas.
Full translation - China is is the only allowed to “gang up” on any one in the region (if you believe in the “New Middle Kingdom”).
Hitler warns England, France, United States not to gang up in Sudetenland dispute.
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