Li is under American sanctions that are part of a broad package of measures against Russia - but predate its invasion of Ukraine - that were imposed in 2018 over Li’s involvement in China’s purchase of combat aircraft and anti-aircraft missiles from Moscow. “Its so-called ‘rules-based international order’ never tells you what the rules are and who made these rules.”īy contrast, he said, “we practice multilateralism and pursue win-win cooperation." “It likes forcing its own rules on others,” he said. Li scoffed at the notion, saying “some country takes a selective approach to rules and international laws.”
was stepping up planning, coordination and training with “friends from the East China Sea to the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean” with shared goals “to deter aggression and to deepen the rules and norms that promote prosperity and prevent conflict.” vision for a “free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific within a world of rules and rights.”Īustin said the U.S. In his speech the previous day, Austin broadly outlined the U.S. When jackals or wolves come, we will face them with shotguns.’” “As the lyrics of a well-known Chinese song go: ‘When friends visit us, we welcome them with fine wine. “China stays committed to the path of peaceful development, but we will never hesitate to defend our legitimate rights and interests, let alone sacrifice the nation’s core interests,” he said. and others of “meddling in China’s internal affairs” by providing Taiwan with defense support and training, and conducting high-level diplomatic visits. In a wide-ranging speech, Li reiterated many of Beijing’s well-known positions, including its claim on Taiwan, calling it “the core of our core interests.” “What’s the point of going there? In China we always say, ‘Mind your own business.’”
“The best way is for the countries, especially the naval vessels and fighter jets of countries, not to do closing actions around other countries' territories,” he said through an interpreter. and its allies had created the danger, and should instead should focus on taking “good care of your own territorial airspace and waters.” Those and previous incidents have raised concerns of a possible accident occurring that could lead to an escalation between the two nations at a time when tensions are already high. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, flying directly in front of the plane's nose.
has said a Chinese J-16 fighter jet late last month “performed an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” while intercepting a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.Īdditionally, the U.S. The Chinese vessel overtook the American ship and then veered across its bow at a distance of 150 yards (about 140 meters) in an “unsafe manner," according to the U.S. guided-missile destroyer and a Canadian frigate were intercepted by a Chinese warship in the strait dividing the self-governed island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, and mainland China. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the same forum Saturday that Washington would not “flinch in the face of bullying or coercion” from China and would continue regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea to emphasize they are international waters, countering Beijing's sweeping territorial claims. Li Shangfu told the Shangri-La Dialogue that China doesn't have any problems with “innocent passage” but that “we must prevent attempts that try to use those freedom of navigation (patrols), that innocent passage, to exercise hegemony of navigation.” In his first international public address since becoming defense minister in March, Gen. SINGAPORE - China's defense minister defended sailing a warship across the path of an American destroyer and Canadian frigate transiting the Taiwan Strait, telling a gathering of some of the world's top defense officials in Singapore on Sunday that such so-called “freedom of navigation” patrols are a provocation to China.
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