Beijing-Sana
China has called on the US military to stop "muscle flexing" in the South China Sea and avoid adding new doubts about Taiwan.
Chinese Defense Minister Wu Qian, spokesman for China's Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, said the US defense secretary urged US Defense Secretary Mark Esper during closed-door defense talks on the sidelines of a meeting of defense ministers in Bangkok on Tuesday to "refrain from provocation, escalate tensions in the South China Sea and stop military provocation." in it".
The Chinese defense minister told his US counterpart that Beijing "will not tolerate any attempt to support Taiwan independence and oppose any official or military contact with Taipei," Wu said, calling on the US side to be cautious on the Taiwan issue and not add new doubts.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in August that the situation in the South China Sea remained stable and was improving with concerted efforts between Beijing and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, calling on the West to consider the issue objectively.
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