The US wants China to stop its ‘Aggressive Actions’ in Indo-Pacific Region
_Vinayak Barot
December 14, New Delhi: The United States (U.S) government on Tuesday strictly warned the PLA to stop its ‘Aggressive Actions’ in the Indo-Pacific region. China is consistently creating threats to the US, India, and many other countries in Asia.
The Beijing government believes that India would be the toughest challenge for China in the Asia region in future, and the US is always ready to counter China at all stages. China claims almost all of the resource-rich sea, with competing claims from four Southeast Asian states as well as Taiwan.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “Washington would work with allies and partners to ‘defend the rules-based order and countries should have the right to ‘choose their own path’.”
“That’s why there is so much concern – from Northeast Asia to Southeast Asia and from the Mekong River to the Pacific Islands – about Beijing’s aggressive actions,” Blinken added.
China is claiming open seas as their own, Distorting open markets through subsidies to its state-run companies, and denying the exports or revoking deals for countries whose policies it does not agree with.
“Countries across the region want this behavior to change – the U.S did too, Washington was ‘determined to ensure freedom of navigation in the South China Sea ‘ Blinken said.
Beijing’s actions there threaten the movement of more than $3 trillion worth of commerce every year.
