Posted on 08/24/2021 2:19:38 AM PDT by Libloather
SINGAPORE - Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday called out Beijing's actions in the South China Sea, and sought to assure countries in Asia that they won't have to choose between the U.S. and China.
"We know that Beijing continues to coerce, to intimidate and to make claims to the vast majority of South China Sea," Harris said in a speech in Singapore during her first official visit to Southeast Asia.
"These unlawful claims have been rejected by the 2016 arbitral tribunal decision, and Beijing's actions continue to undermine the rules based order and threaten the sovereignty of nations," she added. "The United States stands with our allies and partners in the face of these threats."
China claims nearly the entire South China Sea - but a tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration dismissed that claim as legally baseless in 2016.
The South China Sea is resource-rich waterway that's a vital commercial shipping route where trillions of dollars of world trade pass through each year. In addition to China, other territorial claimants in the sea include Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines.
But Beijing ignored the tribunal ruling and in the last few years, even increased its presence by deploying vessels to patrol the waters and building artificial islands.
Harris said the U.S. wants to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific — a region that broadly refers to the area that lies between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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Who the hell would believe this cackling weakling?
I’ve Literally read/heard/watched no news the past half year.
How is this administration handling China?
Better/worse/what we expected??
Thanks in advance.
*CHORTLE*
She knows who’s paying her.
Installed, bought, and paid for by the CCP.
So what we expected basically :)
Yup.
Say, isn’t Heels Up really close to Afghanistan right now? Maybe she can pop in and say hello.
This disinformation presumably approved by the CCP overlords as they prepare for their coming post-Biden world.
What an idiot
Actually, she’s right. Asia won’t have to choose between the U.S. and China. China has already chosen for them. By the end of Biden’s first (and last) term China will be in complete control of Asia.
Yeah, she doesn’t havre to worry. Nobody is ever going to choose the US again.
She means that She and Biden are throwing in the towel.
Translation...........Y'all are screwed!
Of course they won’t have to choose.
Because China now pretty much owns the USA. They own the politicians, they own the media, they own the bureucrats, they ow the universities, they own large percentages of the large corporations, and they on a heck of a lot of land and buildings.
The only thing that they don’t own controlling interests in are conservative patriots who are armed.
Not only does whore’arse not know the Chinese Communists, Kumala doesn’t really understand the Chinese, historically.
It’s a problem that I’ve observed over decades. Western modern civilization pays scant attention to historical backgrounds of any peoples. Those same backgrounds that are branded into the psyche and lore of any ethnic group. That much is evident just from observation. Yet the goose stepping left doesn’t give that observable fact any credence whatsoever.
Horizontal? But today is the 24th, an even day? Aren't even days 'kneeling?'
Because in short order…there won’t be a choice. Duh.
Since Red China owns the U.S. now, they come as a package deal.
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