In a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the fourth Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping said that while he believes in the peaceful resolution of conflicts through direct talks, China will take steps to protect its national interests and sovereignty.
“China will firmly safeguard the sovereignty and related rights in the South China Sea,” Xi said in a meeting, according to Xinhua news.
While acknowledging that Beijing “respects and safeguards the freedom of navigation and overflight other countries are entitled to under international law,” Xi stressed that China will “not accept any freedom of navigation as an excuse to undermine China’s sovereignty and national security interests.”
In a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the fourth Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping said that while he believes in the peaceful resolution of conflicts through direct talks, China will take steps to protect its national interests and sovereignty.
“China will firmly safeguard the sovereignty and related rights in the South China Sea,” Xi said in a meeting, according to Xinhua news.
While acknowledging that Beijing “respects and safeguards the freedom of navigation and overflight other countries are entitled to under international law,” Xi stressed that China will “not accept any freedom of navigation as an excuse to undermine China’s sovereignty and national security interests.”
“If China is looking to assure that we are not required to take additional steps for our own security and that of our partners and allies that it won’t like, the best thing it can do is to engage with us in dealing with North Korea,” Blinken said Tuesday at the Brookings Institution.
“We realize China may not believe us and also proposed to go through the technology and specifications with them … and we are prepared to explain [about] what the technology does and what it doesn’t do and hopefully they will take us up on that proposal,” Blinken added.
The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday replied to Blinken’s comments once again reiterating that the missile defense system would harm China’s security.
“Installing the THAAD system has extended far beyond the defense need against North Korea, and will cause direct harm to China’s strategic and security interests, as well as the regional balance,” said Hong Lei, the ministry’s spokesman.
Russia has also warned against THAAD’s deployment on the Korean Peninsula. In late March Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov stated that THAAD “creates considerable challenges to the security of other countries, including Russia…[which] cannot be considered other than the creation of a certain threat to China and Russia.”
At the summit on Thursday Obama and Xi Jinping agreed to work together on the North Korean threat and have called for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear arsenal. China also agreed to implement in full the latest economic restrictions imposed by the Security Council against the North.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks about health insurance marketplace enrollments and the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The two leaders also released joint statements vowing to improve nuclear security, implement a global climate change deal, and fight cyber security threats.
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