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China slams Pompeo over South China Sea claims
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IANS | 13 Mar, 2019
China on Wednesday slammed as "irresponsible" claims by the top
American diplomat that Beijing was blocking access to energy beneath the
South China Sea.
China's Ministry of Foreign Ministry spokesman
Lu Kang said that Beijing had started consulting Southeast Asian nations
about resolving disputes in the South China Sea, and called on
non-claimant nations to keep out of the discussions.
"Nations in
the region are capable of resolving and managing the disputes in their
own ways," Lu said. "Nations outside the region should refrain from
stirring up trouble and disrupting the harmonious situation."
Without
specifying, Lu said an "extraterritorial country" repeatedly tried to
destabilise the region, working against the interests of the countries
in the area.
Lu was responding to US Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo's suggestion that China was blocking energy development in the
South China Sea through "coercive means", preventing Southeast Asian
countries from accessing more than $2.5 trillion in recoverable energy
reserves.
Addressing top energy firm executives and oil ministers
in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, Pompeo criticised "China's illegal
island building in international waterways", insisting that it was not
"simply a security matter".
"By blocking energy development in
the South China Sea to coerce, it means China prevents Asean members
from accessing more than 2½ trillion in recoverable energy resources,"
he said.
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