Independent: ”South China Sea dispute: Beijing is ’not afraid of war’ with the US…”

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publicerad 28 oktober 2015
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USS Lassen 2015 - Source: US Navy, handout picture
The guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen

South China Sea dispute: ”Beijing is ’not afraid of war’ with the US – but just what would they be fighting over? War of rhetoric reaches new levels after US guided missile destroyer sails past the Subi Reef – a 5.7 km strip of sand that isn’t even above sea level during low tide”, The Independent writes.

”The battle of rhetoric between the US and China continues to escalate over the disputed South China Sea, with state-linked newspapers claiming Beijing is “not frightened to fight a war in the region”.

The threat in an editorial of the Global Times comes after the US said it did sail a Navy ship near to China’s artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago – and that it will do it again.”

Read more in The Independent


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