“We were just challenged 30 minutes ago and the challenge came from the Chinese navy,” he told CNN. “I’m highly confident it came from ashore, this facility here,” he added, pointing to an early-warning radar station on Fiery Cross Reef.
Ambitious Chinese reclamation work has added to tensions around the Spratly archipelago, where the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have competing territorial claims. The area includes vital commercial shipping lanes responsible for annual trade of about $5tn ( 3.2bn).
China claims 90% of the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas deposits. Earlier this week, the US deputy secretary of state, Antony Blinken, warned that Chinese land reclamation work was damaging stability in the region and could even lead to conflict.
“As China seeks to make sovereign land out of sandcastles and redraw maritime boundaries, it is eroding regional trust and undermining investor confidence,” he said. “Its behaviour threatens to set a new precedent whereby larger countries are free to intimidate smaller ones, and that provokes tensions, instability and can even lead to conflict.”
In response, the Pentagon is considering sending military aircraft and ships to the area to ensure freedom of navigation around China’s growing number of artificial islands. “We are considering how to demonstrate freedom of navigation in an area that is critical to world trade,” a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The US and its allies have a very different view than China over the rules of the road in the South China Sea.”
Beijing says it will not stop reclamation work, with China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, describing its sovereignty claims as “hard as a rock”.相关的主题文章：


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