“...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....