You have to hand it to China. Collectively, they can analyze a situation, that they actually created, and turn it completely around and play the victim.
it’s China, not the U.S. nor Japan, or ASEAN member states that has created unrest in the South China Sea
Admiral John Richardson, U.S. Navy chief of naval operations, from second left, Admiral Harry B. Harris, U.S. Navy head of pacific command, and Ashton Carter, U.S. secretary of defense, leave following a news conference on the sidelines of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue Asia Security Summit in Singapore, on Saturday, June 4, 2016. China risks erecting a “Great Wall of self-isolation” in Asia over its actions in the disputed South China Sea, Carter told a global defense forum in Singapore. Photographer: Nicky Loh/Bloomberg
You have to hand it to China. Collectively, they can analyze a situation, that they actually created, and turn it completely around and play the victim. An article on Tuesday in China’s state-run Xinhua news agency, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said that the South China Sea used to be a peaceful place until the U.S. ‘poked it nose’ in the area.
“Instead of its ‘Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific’ strategy, what the United States really needs is to ‘rebalance’ its attitude toward the issue,” the news agency said. U.S. meddling even goes as far back as the 1960s, when oil and natural gas were discovered, Xinhua added, while some countries started to occupy islands in the South China Sea for that reason.
Then, in an obvious spin, the news agency portrays China as the consummate peace maker, stating that it maintained peace in the waters through friendly negotiations, including signing the Declaration on the Conduct (DOC) of Parties in the South China Sea with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2002. ASEAN members include the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.
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