The Trump administration vows to stop China from seizing any more territory in international waters in the South China Sea in its harshest warning to China yet.
“I think the U. S. is going to make sure that we protect our interests there,” said White House spokesman Sean Spicer in Washington, D. C.
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“It’s a question of if those islands are in fact in international waters and not part of China proper, then yeah, we’re going to make sure that we defend international territories from being taken over by one country,” said Spicer.
He was referring to China’s unlawfully claimed and militarized man-made and natural islands in the South China Sea. China’s claim to own the South China Sea was declared illegal on July 12, 2016 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
China refused to abide by the court’s decision to withdraw from the islands it illegally seized from the Philippines and instead will emplace more anti-aircraft defenses on those islands this year.
Earlier this month, U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson indicated he’s in favor of using military force to evict China from the man-made islands it’s built in the disputed South China Sea.
