Chinese foreign minister Yang Jeichi said over the weekend that Beijing “highly values the importance of developing the strategic partnership with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and is committed to its bigger role in East Asian cooperation and regional integration.”
Yang made the statement at the close of his two-day visit to Kota Kinabalu in East Malaysia, the second of a three-nation swing in Southeast Asia which, curiously, does not include Hanoi and Manila, which are challenging Beijing’s claims to the islands in the South China Sea.
Yang earlier made a similar two-day stopover in Jakarta, and is set to travel to Brunei today to cap a three-nation diplomatic blitz.
Interestingly, while Yang was doing his diplomatic blitz in Southeast Asia, Beijing was busy strengthening its stranglehold of the South China Sea by extending its air field runaway in Woody Island, the largest water of the Paracel Islands (Xisha), where Sansha City is located.
In a report posted in the Hong-Kong-based Phoenix Television website, Beijing said Sansha city would become the “main Chinese military base” in the dispute over the South China Sea.
Asian Defence News
Yang made the statement at the close of his two-day visit to Kota Kinabalu in East Malaysia, the second of a three-nation swing in Southeast Asia which, curiously, does not include Hanoi and Manila, which are challenging Beijing’s claims to the islands in the South China Sea.
Yang earlier made a similar two-day stopover in Jakarta, and is set to travel to Brunei today to cap a three-nation diplomatic blitz.
Interestingly, while Yang was doing his diplomatic blitz in Southeast Asia, Beijing was busy strengthening its stranglehold of the South China Sea by extending its air field runaway in Woody Island, the largest water of the Paracel Islands (Xisha), where Sansha City is located.
In a report posted in the Hong-Kong-based Phoenix Television website, Beijing said Sansha city would become the “main Chinese military base” in the dispute over the South China Sea.
Asian Defence News
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