Morning Star.png USA the one militarising South China Sea The Morning Star, London, 20 January 2016 China accused the US yesterday of militarising the disputed South China Sea islands with its repeated naval incursions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters that patrols by US military aircraft and navy vessels, along with joint exercises involving regional allies, were the true reason why concerns were growing over peace and stability. "The above actions have escalated tensions in the South China Sea, and that's the real militarisation of the South China Sea," he said. Beijing's criticism of Washington came days after Taiwan alleged that China had stationed surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island. China has not denied the appearance of the missiles, but says it is entitled to defend its territory and points to the construction of infrastructure undertaken to provide more "public goods and services to the international community." From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fd65-US-the-one-militarising-South-Chi na-Sea#.VsgAIvl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fd65-US-the-one-militarising-South-Chin a-Sea#.VsgAIvl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
