Reuters: U.S. presses China to halt militarization of South China Sea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Standing side by side, top U.S. officials urged their Chinese counterparts on Friday to halt militarization of the disputed South China Sea, drawing a rebuke from the Chinese for sending U.S. warships close to islands claimed by Beijing.
During a round of high-level talks in Washington, the two sides aired in sometimes blunt terms many of their main differences, including a bitter trade dispute, freedom of navigation in Asia-Pacific waters, self-ruled Taiwan, and China’s crackdown on its Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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I don't see any easy solution except if they back down both. One demilitarizing the islands and the other one stopping the Fonop. Even that is not fixing the deep problem: is a nation has the right to make its own rule's the international one?
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