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SHARE 68 DOW 16,432 -188.88 -1.14% BULLETIN Pound drops below $1.39 as losses pick up pace Home General International news The Wall Street Journal THE WALL STREET JOURNAL U.S. calls out China over South China Sea missile deployment By Chun Han Wong Published: Feb 17, 2016 11:25 p.m. ET
SHARE 68 Kerry says evidence shows China is going against its word Reuters U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit Monday in California. The Obama administration sharply criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday after charging that China’s military had deployed batteries of advanced missiles on a disputed South China Sea island.
Secretary of State John Kerry said the missile deployment was at odds with a pledge made by Xi while visiting the White House last year to refrain from militarizing clusters of disputed islands throughout the South China Sea.
Chinese officials, while not directly confirming or denying U.S. and Taiwanese claims about the missiles, said they plan to keep strengthening defensive capabilities in the South China Sea.
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U.S. officials said Wednesday that they had confirmed commercial satellite imagery appearing to show the deployment of surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island in the disputed Paracel chain. The commercial images, from the firm ImageSat International NV, indicate the missiles were deployed sometime after Feb. 3.
“When President Xi was here in Washington, he stood in the Rose Garden with President Obama and said China will not militarize in the South China Sea,” Kerry said on Wednesday. “But there is every evidence, every day that there has been an increase of militarization of one kind or another. It’s of serious concern.”
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