Hanoi / Shanghai: US Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday again demanded China by intimidating Southeast Asian neighbors, the second time in two days he had attacked Beijing during regional visits aimed at fighting China’s influence.
Previously on Wednesday, Chinese media accused Harris to try to direct slices between China and Southeast Asian countries with comments in Singapore that Beijing uses coercion and intimidation to support South China Sea Claims that violate the law.
Speaking in Hanoi on Wednesday, Harris said there was a need to increase pressure on Beijing for his maritime claims.
“We need to find a way to press, raise the pressure …
in Beijing to comply with the United Nations Convention on Sea Law, and to challenge, excessive lodging and maritime claims,” ​​Harris said during a meeting with Vietnam.
President Nguyen Xuan PHUC.
China, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan, claimed parts of the South China Sea, which were crossed by vital shipping lines and contained rich gas and fishing fields.
China has established military posts on artificial islands in the South China Sea and foreign warships sailing through what they claim is a sovereign waters.
The US Navy regularly performs the operation of “freedom of navigation” through disputed waters, which with Chinese objects, said they did not help promote peace or stability.
In 2016, the permanent court based in Den Haague ruled against Chinese claims, but Beijing had rejected the verdict.
“While directing finger to China and accused him of ‘coercion’ and ‘intimidation’, Harris deliberately ignored his own hypocrisy in trying to force and intimidating regional countries to join Washington in the scheme,” said the country of China Daily) in the editorial responded to Harris’s comments in Singapore.
Singapore Harris’s speech was an unfounded attack in China, said editorial.
“It seems that the commitment of the United States to Southeast Asia is a special effort to ride slices between Southeast Asian and Chinese countries,” he added.
US Administration has called Competition with China “the largest geopolitic test” of the Asian Century this century and Southeast Asia has seen a series of high-profile visits by Puncak Administrative Officers, including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who visited Hanoi at the end of July.
Harris’s arrival in Hanoi was delayed on Tuesday after the US Embassy in Vietnam said it had detected “anomalial health incidents”, potentially related to mysterious Havana syndrome.
During the delay, Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam held a meeting that was previously not announced, where Chinh said Vietnam did not side with foreign policy.
The Chinese Ambassador promised a contribution of 2 million Covid-19 vaccines during the meeting.
China is Vietnam’s largest trading partner and Vietnam very dependent on materials and equipment from China for its manufacturing activities.
The ruling communist party maintains close relations, but Vietnam and China have been involved in an old dispute over maritime claims in the South China Sea, known as the East Sea in Vietnam.
Tensions have encouraged Vietnam to be one of the most vocal opponents of Beijing’s claim in disputed waterways and Hanoi has received US military hardware, including the coast guard cutter.
The tie between Hanoi and Washington has grown closer more than four decades after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, although Washington said there was a limit on relationships until Hanoi made progress on human rights.
Analysts said Vietnam wanted to improve his diplomatic relations with the United States against “strategic partnerships” but concerning such steps would be angry with Beijing.