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War of words heats up over South China Sea conflict


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SOURCE: http://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/5/31/war-of-words-heats-up-over-south-china-sea-conflict
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At Singapore summit, critics accuse China of setting a confrontational tone and undermining Asia-Pacific security.Singapore – While rival claims over the South China Sea fishing grounds and shipping lanes go back centuries, China’s intensifying land reclamation and island-building in the Spratly archipelago and other contested waters is an escalating global dispute.China laid out its ambitions for a bigger naval presence far from its coasts last week, prompting concerns that Beijing will back up its claims to new territories by flexing its military muscle in one of the world’s most strategic waterways. “There is no reason for people to play up this issue in the South China Sea,” he said.The admiral’s appeals for dialogue and negotiation over territorial disputes contrast with earlier language accusing the US and other countries of meddling into its affairs.China’s Xinhua news agency said some summit participants “attempt to monopolise the right to speak in the field of international security… They echo each other, distort the truth, magnify differences, add fuel to fire, so that dialogue diverges from the path of strengthening exchanges and enhancing mutual trust”.The Global Times, a Chinese government-run newspaper, warned last week:“If the United States’ bottom line is that China has to halt its activities, then a US-China war is inevitable in the South China Sea.”China’s new maritime outposts create the potential for military uses, although China denies having military aspirations for its newly minted islands.

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