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Kerry Heads to Beijing Amid South China Sea Dispute
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15.05.2015
The US secretary of state, John Kerry, is flying into Beijing for a weekend of difficult talks with Chinese officials, likely to be dominated by escalating tensions about the South China Sea. Washington has been very publicly contemplating a stronger response to a large-scale Chinese land reclamation project in disputed waters, which is turning submerged reefs into airstrips, and creating thousands of hectares of dry land. Several regional powers including the Philippines and Vietnam have overlapping claims to the area, mostly uninhabited reefs and atolls that lie in one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. Kerry’s trip was scheduled long before the problem blew up into an urgent diplomatic dispute, but it has now become a focus of the visit.
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