{"id":1610,"date":"2017-08-13T12:32:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T10:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2017-08-26T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T09:27:56","slug":"english-australia-japan-and-u-s-the-south-china-sea-isnt-chinas-own-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/2017\/08\/13\/english-australia-japan-and-u-s-the-south-china-sea-isnt-chinas-own-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia, Japan And U.S.: The South China Sea Isn&#8217;t China&#8217;s Own Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Australia, Japan and the U.S. have a clear and loud message for China: The South China Sea isn&#8217;t China&#8217;s own sea. It&#8217;s an international sea. That\u2019s why the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Beijing must\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-asean-philippines-southchinasea-idUSKBN1AN0TU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">establish<\/a>\u00a0a set of rules that were &#8220;legally binding, meaningful, effective, and consistent with international law.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The message, which came at a recent gathering of the foreign ministers of the three countries in Manila, echoes a similar message America and its naval allies, France, Japan and Britain sent to Beijing six months ago stating that the South China Sea should be open to all military vessels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s according to a recent\u00a0Chinatopix.com report. &#8220;Japan and the United States are worried by China&#8217;s efforts to exercise unilateral control over the South China Sea, a concern shared by France, which controls several Pacific islands, including New Caledonia and French Polynesia.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Financial markets in the region do not seem\u00a0that concerned, at least for now, focusing on the economic fundamentals rather than the geopolitics of the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1608\" src=\"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/datei\/uploads\/2017\/08\/my-dua-chien-ham-manh-nhat-den-bien-dong_31633982-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">US &#8211;\u00a0Destroyer<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/philippines-duterte-tillerson-i-am-your-humble-friend-n790161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a>himself a \u201chumble\u201d friend of America in Southeast Asia, suggesting that he is getting ready for another in a series of flip-flops in the South China Sea dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">China considers the waterway its own sea, and is building artificial islands, defying international tribunal rulings, though Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte isn&#8217;t prepared to stop Beijing &#8212; Philippines is the country that won an international tribunal ruling against China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/panosmourdoukoutas\/2017\/08\/09\/australia-japan-and-us-the-south-china-sea-isnt-chinas-own-sea\/#229133f56332<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\n<p>Aufrufe: 329<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia, Japan and the U.S. have a clear and loud message for China: The South China Sea isn&#8217;t China&#8217;s own sea. It&#8217;s an international sea. That\u2019s why the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Beijing must\u00a0establish\u00a0a set of rules that were &#8220;legally binding, meaningful, effective, and consistent with international law.&#8221; The message, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97,1,38],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}