Amid the continuing tensions in the South China Sea, some experts in China claimed that the United States is creating problems in the region by hyping up fake narratives on freedom of navigation and overflight in the region.
According to Chinadaily, experts discussed the South China Sea issue at an event organised by the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI).
Wu Shicun, the director of the academic committee of China's National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said, "The US-led militarisation of the South China Sea will intensify, but will be different as the White House changes hands. Unilateral actions by claimant states will become more diverse."
Long-seething territorial disputes in the South China Sea are a fault line in the US-China rivalry in Asia and likely will remain a major foreign policy concern for the next American president Donald Trump.
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Yan Yan, director of the Research Center for Oceans Law and Policy, National Institute for South China Sea Studies, has been quoted as saying that it is the United States that poses the greatest threat to the freedom of navigation and overflight in the region.
They noted that the situation in the region is far less tense and volatile than projected by some media outfits. They claimed that the instability in the region was caused by the US picking sides and certain countries who are claimants in the South China Sea dispute trying to enforce their illegal interests.