China warns U.S., Japan, Australia not to gang up in sea disputes
China said on Monday the United States, Australia and Japan
should not use their alliance as an excuse to intervene in territorial disputes
in the East China Sea and South China Sea, and urged them to refrain from
inflaming regional tensions. Relations between China and Japan, the world's
second- and third-largest economies, have been troubled in recent years by a
row over tiny, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku
in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. In the South China Sea, Vietnam, the
Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and China are involved in long-standing
sovereignty disputes over the potentially oil- and gas-rich island chain.
On Friday, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Japanese
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised
the maritime disputes during a trilateral strategic dialogue in Bali,
Indonesia. The U.S.-Japan-Australia meeting took place on the sidelines of an
annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting on the Indonesian
island of Bali. A joint statement from the U.S.-Japan-Australia meeting opposed
"coercive or unilateral actions" that could change the status quo in
the East China Sea and called on claimants to maritime disputes in the South
China Sea to refrain from destabilizing actions.
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