Hillary Clinton warned that China’s approach to solving territorial disputes in the South China Sea, one of the world’s most important shipping routes, was a recipe for “confrontation”.
The US secretary of state insisted that territorial disputes had to be settled in a region-wide agreement that included all the claimants, rather than the approach favoured by China of conducting talks with each individual country.
“Issues such as freedom of navigation and lawful exploitation of maritime resources often involve a wide region, and approaching them strictly bilaterally could be a recipe for confusion and even confrontation,” she told a regional summit in Cambodia.
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